Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
THOMAS MOREAnd peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
More Thomas More Quotes
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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Friendship demands attention.
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Nobody sees a flower really, it is so small. We haven’t time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
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As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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