"If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality."

"Where knowledge ends, religion begins."

~Benjamin Disraeli

"What people forget is how the only time Christ used physical force was when he drove out the merchants and the money lenders from the temple."

"I saw the snares of the devil sprawled out across the world. And so I asked 'How can one possibly avoid them?' And a strong voice came from above and said, 'Humility.'"

+St. Anthony the Great

“The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way. He might as well promise to never have a headache or always to feel hungry.”

~C.S. Lewis

"Beauty, virtue, happiness, have all their defined proportions; deformity, vice, and misery have none."

~Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."

~G.K. Chesterton

"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud."

~Sophocles

"I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory."

~Cicero

"It is better for you to be defeated while speaking the truth, than to be victorious through deceit."

~Sextus

"Hell can't be made attractive, so the devil makes attractive the road that leads there."

~St. Basil the Great

"There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society, successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion."

~Will Durant

"If we have a taste for divine things, wordly things will no longer excite our appetite."

~St. Francis de Sales

"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."

"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Acquire a peaceful spirit, and thousands around you will find salvation.”

~St. Seraphim of Sarov     

"There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not."

~Otto von Bismarck

"In life there's only one definite happiness - to live for others."

"There are two dreams, the fulfillment of which makes a person happy - to be useful and have a clear conscience."

~Leo Tolstoy

"Men crave duty; a cross to bear, a cause to defend, a family to protect."

~Mælurain

"To break the spell of self-deception is one of the greatest moral triumphs a human being — or a society, or a civilization — can claim."

~Emil Cioran

“Indeed, the truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers the most: and his suffering comes to him from things so little and so trivial that one can say that it is no longer objective at all. It is his own existence, his own being, that is at once the subject and the source of his pain, and his very existence and consciousness is his greatest torture.”

~Thomas Merton

Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves - in their depravity - design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes, but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.

~Homer, The Odyssey