Latin Sayings for Spiritual Growth

by Reilly, Archabbot Lambert

• ISBN13: 9780879739430
• ISBN10: 0879739436
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor

Author Biography

Lambert Reilly, O.S.B., is the archabbot of Saint Meinrad's Archabbey in Indiana. The native of Pittsburgh has been a retreat director more than thirty years. He has given frequent retreats for Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity in both the United States and India. He holds a Master's degree in both education and religious education and has taught at the elementary, secondary, and college levels

Table of Contents

Praefatio Prima (Editor's Preface)	15	(4)
Praefatio Secunda (Author's Preface)	19	(2)
Prooemium (Introduction) Virtue stands in the middle. St. Thomas Aquinas	21	(3)
Part I---Fides Sayings That Inspire the Virtue of Faith
All truth is from the Holy Spirit. St. Ambrose	24	(2)
There is no such thing as chance. St. Thomas Aquinas	26	(1)
We hasten to Christ not by running but by believing. St. Augustine	27	(2)
Whatever happens has a cause. St. Thomas Aquinas	29	(1)
Never less alone than when alone. John Henry Cardinal Newman	30	(1)
To sing is characteristic of the lover. St. Augustine	31	(2)
One day is sometimes better than a whole year. Publilius Syrus	33	(1)
Love God and do what you will. St. Augustine	34	(1)
The happy person is the one who owes nothing. Traditional	35	(2)
Rabbits may pull dead lions by the beard. Traditional	37	(1)
Money is the ruler of the world. Traditional	38	(1)
The voice of the people, the voice of God. Homer	39	(1)
We're not children twice, as the saying goes, but we're always children. Seneca	40	(2)
Only the good die young. Plautus	42	(1)
The promise of the seas and the mountains. Sallust	43	(2)
Times change and we with them. Lothair	45	(1)
The rose is neighbor to the thorn. Traditional	46	(1)
Praise the day at night, and life at the end. Traditional	47	(2)
It pleased God to save believers.... St. Paul	49	(2)
I am the light of the world;... Jesus Christ	51	(1)
Your inmost being must be renewed,... St. Paul	52	(1)
Whatever he tells you, do. The Blessed Virgin Mary	53	(3)
Part II---Spes Sayings That Inspire the Virtue of Hope
Sinners in reality, saints in hope. St. Augustine	56	(1)
To pour water into a sieve. Plautus	57	(1)
Hunger finds no fault with what's given to eat. Horatius	58	(1)
A joyful heart lights up the face. Salomo	59	(1)
Every agent acts on account of an end at least virtually. St. Thomas Aquinas	60	(2)
We lose the certain while we seek the uncertain. Plautus	62	(2)
A good death is far better than an ill life. Traditional	64	(2)
Truth is able to work, it's not able to be conquered. Traditional	66	(1)
Time will tell. Traditional	67	(2)
Every rooster is proud on his own dunghill. Seneca	69	(2)
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body.... Jesus Christ	71	(2)
Do not fear, because I am with you. Jesus Christ	73	(1)
Our joy is in hope. St. Paul	74	(2)
If God is for us, who can be against us? St. Paul	76	(2)
He chose us to be holy and spotless in his sight. St. Paul	78	(2)
You have been called from idols to God,... St. Paul	80	(2)
Time softens all sorrows. Chaucer	82	(2)
Part III---Caritas Sayings That Inspire the Virtue of Love
Charity is first to itself. John Wycliffe	84	(2)
In necessary things we should have unity;... St. Augustine	86	(2)
Love me, love my dog. St. Bernard	88	(2)
Of all pains, the greatest pain is to love but to love in vain. Traditional	90	(2)
Friendship which ends was never true. St. Jerome	92	(2)
No friendship lives long that owes its rise to the pot. Traditional	94	(1)
Birds of a feather flock together. Traditional	95	(2)
One who does not really burn, does not really love. St. Augustine	97	(2)
The heart's letter is read in the eyes. Traditional	99	(2)
It is safer to commend the dead than the living. Erasmus	101	(1)
Eye has not seen nor has ear heard.... St. Paul	102	(2)
Blessed be God who comforts us in all our trials. St. Paul	104	(1)
This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. God	105	(2)
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. St. John	107	(3)
Part IV---Prudentia Sayings That Inspire the Virtue of Prudence
Let nothing be preferred to the Work of God. St. Benedict	110	(2)
Second thoughts are wiser ones. Traditional	112	(2)
The final cause is the cause of the causes. St. Thomas Aquinas	114	(2)
It's not the habit that makes the monk. Traditional	116	(2)
Custom is almost a second nature. Cicero	118	(2)
A traveler may lie with authority. Traditional	120	(2)
Every shoe fits not every foot. Publilius Syrus	122	(2)
Deliberation should take a long time; establishment is a one-time experience. Publilius Syrus	124	(2)
The head gray, and no brains yet. Traditional	126	(2)
One who tries everything perfects nothing well, ever. Traditional	128	(2)
One who fawns looks out only for his own benefit. Traditional	130	(2)
To laugh up one's sleeve. Cicero	132	(2)
Not everyone who laughs with us is a friend. Traditional	134	(2)
Tell the story to the deaf person. Terence	136	(2)
Praise the sea, but keep on land. Traditional	138	(2)
A forgetful head makes a weary pair of heels. Traditional	140	(4)
Part V---Justitia Sayings That Inspire the Virtue of Justice
What you do not wish to come to you, don't do to others. Lampridius	144	(1)
One who seeks high things too much, has a fall that goes way down. Traditional	145	(2)
The purpose of the law is not the law itself. St. Thomas Aquinas	147	(2)
When the tree has fallen down, lots of people go to it with a hatchet. Traditional	149	(2)
If you don't work, you don't eat. St. Paul	151	(2)
The rule of custom has lots of weight. Cicero	153	(2)
Like master, like servant. Petronius Arbiter	155	(2)
Necessity knows no law. Publilius Syrus	157	(2)
What comes on the scene quickly, quickly perishes. Traditional	159	(2)
The die is cast. Plutarch	161	(2)
The young person seeks, the old person enjoys. Traditional	163	(2)
To err is human, to forgive divine. Cicero	165	(2)
The person who is absent won't be the heir. Traditional	167	(2)
Thoughts are free from toll. Ulpian	169	(1)
The mocker doesn't go away unmocked. Traditional	170	(2)
The dog without teeth does the barking. Ennuis	172	(1)
A great man can come from a hut. Seneca the Younger	173	(2)
One who once deceived is always suspected. Traditional	175	(2)
Death doesn't accept excuses. Traditional	177	(3)
Part VI---Fortitudo Sayings That Inspire the Virtue of Fortitude
Every beginning is difficult. Traditional	180	(2)
No pain, no gain. Nicholas Breton	182	(2)
Always faithful. U.S. Marine Corps Slogan	184	(2)
It is always darkest just before the dawn. Thomas Fuller	186	(2)
In bitterness there is salvation. Traditional	188	(1)
It's one thing to say something, it's another to do it. Traditional	189	(2)
Seize the day. Horace	191	(2)
The cross is for every race. Traditional	193	(2)
An old fox will find a shelter for himself. Traditional	195	(2)
In birth, we are dying, and our end hangs on our beginning. Manilius	197	(2)
Experience is the best teacher. Roger Ascham	199	(2)
That which is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh. Traditional	201	(2)
The one who asks faintly, begs a denial. Seneca	203	(2)
No labor is difficult to one desiring it. Traditional	205	(2)
It becomes a fault if you fall again. Publilius Syrus	207	(2)
The one who despises the little things never is able to add up the big things. Traditional	209	(2)
Be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. Jesus Christ	211	(3)
Part VII---Temperantia Sayings That Inspire the Virtue of Temperance
A sound mind in a sound body. Juvenalis	214	(1)
What you do, do forcefully but do gently, sweetly. Traditional	215	(2)
We're at the same time just and sinful. St. Augustine	217	(1)
Nothing in excess. Terence	218	(1)
From sin, sin comes. Traditional	219	(2)
Fortune is like glass; the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. Publilius Syrus	221	(2)
There is nothing as out of place in a Christian as excess. St. Benedict	223	(2)
Too much indulgence corrupts. Traditional	225	(2)
What the eye doesn't see, the heart won't want. Traditional	227	(1)
Hard with hard never made any good wall. Erasmus	228	(1)
The one who doesn't know how to hold his tongue knows not how to talk. Ausonius	229	(1)
The one who grasps at too much holds nothing fast. Traditional	230	(2)
Wine makes even the wisest go astray. Jesus Sirach	232	(3)
Epilogus (Epilogue) Go in peace! Traditional Roman Farewell	235