Bernard Quotes
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
there are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self's sake. 2) Love of God for self's sake. 3) Love of God for God's own sake. 4) Love of self for God's sake.
I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
All change begins with a DECISION. Once the decision is made, DISCIPLINE becomes the bridge between desire and accomplishment.
We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?
Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.
Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... Rule 2 is: Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.
Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.
Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.
Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
