Quotes on Hippo

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.