QUOTATION: Life

The highest manifestation of life consists of this: that a being governs its own actions.

--St. Thomas Aquinas

QUOTATION: Meekness

Sanctity that is not meek is not true.

--St. Peter Julian Eymard

QUOTATION: Failure to Confess

In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.

--St. Augustine

QUOTATION: How to Dress

Be not too eager for rich apparel, for humility is incompatible with a love of display. One who is too solicitous about his dress is a slave to the opinions of men, for he certainly would not expend so much labor upon it if he thought he would not be observed. Beware, however, of going to the other extreme and dressing in a manner unsuited to your position. While claiming to despise the approbation or notice of the world, many secretly strive for it by their singularity and exaggerated simplicity.

--Louis de Granada, The Sinner's Guide

QUOTATION: Rules of Speech

How good and peaceful to be silent about others, not to believe without discrimination all that is said, not easily to report it further.

--Thomas a Kempis