Daniel > Daniel's Quotes

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
― C.S. Lewis

“God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo

“God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.”
― St. Augustine, City of God

“I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
― Galileo Galilei

“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say”
― Martin Luther

“Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.”
― Saint Thomas Aquinas

“Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.”
― Albert Einstein

“We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

“The things that we love tell us what we are.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
― Albert Einstein

“We meet no ordinary people in our lives.”
― C.S. Lewis; Inspirational Christian Library

“The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.”
― J.S. Bach

“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent”
― Isaac Newton

“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.”
― Isaac Newton

“Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum.”
― Leonhard Euler

“For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.”
― Thomas a Kempis

“Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying, or meditating, or endeavoring something for the public good.”
― Thomas à Kempis

“A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.”
― John Henry Newman

“Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.”
― John Henry Newman

“Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam.”
― St. Ignatius Loyola

“Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all I have and call my own. You have given all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and your grace, that is enough for me.”
― St. Ignatius of Loyola

“Jesus has now many lovers of the heavenly kingdom but few bearers of His cross.”
― Thomas à Kempis, Imitation Of Christ

“There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.”
― Nikolai Lobachevsky

“Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your light penetrate the darkness of my understanding. Take from me the double darkness in which I have been born, an obscurity of sin and ignorance. Give me a keen understanding, a retentive memory, and the ability to grasp things correctly and fundamentally. Grant me the talent of being exact in my explanations and the ability to express myself with thoroughness and charm. Point out the beginning, direct the progress, and help in the completion.”
― Thomas Aquinas