“The fact is certain because it is impossible.”

Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.

Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.

Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.

Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.

It is certain because it is impossible.

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

Where our work is, there let our joy be.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.

It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.

There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

You can only succeed. You cannot fail. Failure is impossible; it is an illusion. Nothing is a failure. Nothing. Everything moves the human story, and hence the process of evolution, forward. Everything advances you on your journey.

Do you understand that it’s impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Faith means believing the unbelievable.

Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.