St. Clement Quotes
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.
No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.
We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds.
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.
I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.
Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.
The Lord ate from a common bowl, and asked the disciples to sit on the grass. He washed their feet, with a towel wrapped around His waist - He, who is the Lord of the universe!
It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try, and keep trying, for there is nothing to lose by trying and a great deal to gain if successful. By all means TRY! Do it NOW!!!
If you enroll as one of God's people, then heaven is your country and God your lawgiver.
Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye.
A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence.
This world and the world to come are two enemies. We cannot therefore be friends to both; but we must decide which we will forsake and which we will enjoy.
We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty. We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think, and plan.
If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.
No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.
Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
The rule of life for a perfect person is to be in the image and likeness of God.
In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.
When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.
The Word of God became man, that thou mayest learn from man how man may become God.
And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
