Nicolas Caussin famous quotes

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.
-- Nicolas Caussin

#Heaven #Earth #Speak

We should render thanks to God for having produced this temporal light, which is the smile of heaven and joy of the world, spreading it like a cloth of gold over the face of the air and earth, and lighting it as a torch by which we might behold His works.
-- Nicolas Caussin

#Air #Light #Joy

The famous Apollonius being very early at Vespasian's gate, and finding him stirring, from thence conjectured that he was worthy to govern an empire, and said to his companion, This man surely will be emperor; he is so early.
-- Nicolas Caussin

#Men #Empires #Said

The cloud which appeared to the prophet Ezekiel carried with it winds and storms, but it was environed with a golden circle, to teach us that the storms of afflictions, which happen to God's children, are encompassed with brightness and smiling felicity.
-- Nicolas Caussin

#Children #Wind #Circles

They say that love and tears are learned without any master; and I may say that there is no great need of studying at the court to learn envy and revenge.
-- Nicolas Caussin

#Revenge #Envy #Tears

Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who is able to recount the sources and issues thereof?
-- Nicolas Caussin

#Ambition #Abyss #Poise

An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you from a place where there is nothing new to a place where there is nothing old, where everything renews itself, where heaven and earth rejoice as at the moment of creation.

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.

Hours are golden links, God's token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them, lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time.

The Earth is the most powerful and energetic planet.

A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.

I’m not afraid of anything that might happen to me on this earth, because I know no matter what, nothing can take my spirit from me.

When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad...

Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.