Wise Words on Wednesday: Having Enemies
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Category: Quotation
Wise Words on Wednesday: Plan of Action
“No plan of action ever survives contact with the enemy”
– Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
Neither final nor fatal
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts”
– Winston Churchill
Wise Words on Wednesday: Just words
“No matter how just your words may be, you ruin everything when you speak with anger.”
– St. John Chrysostom
Wise Words on Wednesday: Dependent Upon Mercy
“Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God’s mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved”
– St. John Chrysostom
Wise Words on Wednesday: Do not be ashamed
“Do not be ashamed to enter again into the Church. Be ashamed when you sin. Do not be ashamed when you repent. Pay attention to what the devil did to you. These are two things: sin and repentance. Sin is a wound; repentance is a medicine. Just as there are for the body wounds and medicines, so for the soul are sins and repentance. However, sin has the shame and repentance possesses the courage.”
– St. John Chrysostom
Wise Words on Wednesday: What weighs a man down
It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.
– George MacDonald