A warning to all those who enter…
Remember that the writings below are not the whole of wisdom, but much more like the peaks of mountains. For the peak is merely a stone without the mountain underneath it!
My Own Creations
Why would a bird that hasn’t learned to fly, dream of swimming when it isn’t a fish?
Kenny S. R. Costa
The most beautiful place in the world, is the place that God wants you to be.
Kenny S. R. Costa
Kenny S. R. Costa
The Law is not a Philosophic King, but rather a Just Tyrant.
Kenny S. R. Costa
Kenny S. R. Costa
Kenny S. R. Costa
Kenny S. R. Costa
Knowledge reveals beauty, and beauty shines forth most brightly with knowledge.
Kenny S. R. Costa
Philosophical
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
Allan Bloom [Closing of the American Mind (1987, pg 249)]
Indignation is the soul’s defence against the wound of doubt.
Allan Bloom [Closing of the American Mind (1987 pg 71)]
Fundamentally letters are shapes indicating voices. Hence they represent things which they bring to mind through the windows of the eyes. Frequently they speak voicelessly the utterances of the absent
John of Salisbury
Inspirational
I slept soundly and had no need for cheering dreams. Facts are better than dreams.
Winston S. Churchill [The Gathering Storm (1948, pg 667)]
How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice! Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Winston S. Churchill [The Gathering Storm (1948, pg 201)]
I was thinking how nothing lasts, and what a shame that is.
Benjamin Button in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
Nothing great was ever done without much enduring.
St. Catherine of Siena
Fortune favours the bold. (audentis Fortuna iuuat)
Virgil [Aeneid]
You can do nothing about avoiding death, but you can do something about living well.
St. Augustine
Religious
A man and his sins are deadly enemies. If you love one, you hate the other.
What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.
Voltaire
Let love be the root of all you do, and from the root, nothing but good will grow.
St. Augustine
So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13
O Christian, recognize your dignity!
St. Leo the Great
No one can have God as Father who does not have the Church as Mother.
St. Cyprian
If we really want to pray, we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart, God speaks.
Mother Teresa
The best prayers often have more groans than words.
John Bunyan
We must remember God more often than we draw breath.
St. Gregory of Nazianzus
I believe, in order to understand; and I understand, the better to believe.
St. Augustine
Let no one have contempt for your youth, but set an example for those who believe, in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity.
1 Timothy 4:12
Perfect prayer is achieved not with many words, but with loving desire.
St. Catherine of Siena (The Dialogue)
Funny
Things are only as awkward as you think they are.
Nathan S. R. Costa
If God was a Hamburger, would you eat him?
Nathan S. R. Costa
Look at all these GREAT PRICES!!!!
Nathan Costa at Youth Bake Sale
