Roger Chamberlain famous quotes

Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.
-- Roger Chamberlain

#Men #Rich Or Poor #Desire

It is better to be well deserving without praise than to live by the air of undeserved commendation.
-- Roger Chamberlain

#Air #Praise #Live By

When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.
-- Roger Chamberlain

#Nature #Bears #Reason

A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.
-- Roger Chamberlain

#Men #Foolish Man #House

Harsh reproof is like a violent storm, soon washed down the channel; but friendly admonitions, like a small shower, pierce deep, and bring forth better reformation.
-- Roger Chamberlain

#Storm #Friendly #Violent

He that rectifies a crooked stick bends it the contrary way, so must he that would reform a vice learn to affect its mere contrary, and in time he shall see the springing blossoms of a happy restoration.
-- Roger Chamberlain

#Vices #Reform #Restoration

There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.
-- Roger Chamberlain

#Want #Riches #Poverty

Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief.
-- Roger Chamberlain

#Too Much #Way #Next

God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.

We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.

I just want to be remembered for treating everybody right. Just remember me like that. I treated everybody right, I don't care if they were rich or poor, I treated them the same. As long as people remember that, I'm happy.

It is of no concern to me if one is rich or poor, healthy or sick, at some time or another life will be pretty difficult for everyone. That is one of the reasons why my figures do not smile.

May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.