Status Updates From A Calendar of Wisdom

“Virtue and charity start at home. If you have to go somewhere to display it, then it is not virtue.”

“One becomes older in order to become kinder; there is no mistake which I have not already made.” —JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

“Wise people cannot be sufficiently educated, and educated people cannot be sufficiently wise.” —LAO-TZU

“How good a person feels when, exhausted from striving for goodness in his everyday life, he stretches out his hands to God.” —BLAISE PASCAL

“The real purpose of Christianity is obvious to all, and it is stronger than the lies which try to pervert it.”

“The greater the effort a person makes to achieve pleasure, the less possible it is for him to possess real goodness, or love. They who say that doing good causes them unhappiness either don’t believe in God or aren’t doing something that is truly good.”