Quotes for Friday June 18th

Triumph of the Virtues (1502) | Minerve chassant les Vices du jardin des Vertus | Mantegna

Bullying sounds like it belongs in the schoolyard. But in the life of the Church it represents a scandalous inversion of everything the incarnation of Jesus stood for. His self-emptying and vulnerable humility is the far flung opposite of the psychological brutalising and manipulation. - Gavin Ashenden

In some causes silence is dangerous. - Saint Ambrose of Milan

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody. - Abraham Lincoln

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Every night before going to sleep, we must ask ourselves: what weakness did I overcome today? What virtue did I acquire? - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. - Benjamin Disraeli

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself? - Epictetus

No one heals himself by wounding another. - Saint Ambrose

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king. - Saint Augustine

What we love we shall grow to resemble. - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things. - Saint Thomas Aquinas

If you embrace all things in this life as coming from the hands of God, and even embrace death to fulfill His holy will, assuredly you will die a saint. - Saint Alphonsus Liguori