Random Catholic Quotations

A short time ago, someone bought me a book entitled The Book of Catholic Quotations. This is, literally, what it says on the tin, sorry, on the cover. A randomly selected sample. Of this group, I like the first best.

Do not show signs of devotion outwardly when you have none within, but you may lawfully hide the want thereof. St Teresa of Jesus: Maxims

A dimple in the chin; a devil within. Irish proverb

He married the money and bade the wife to the weddin'. Seumas MacManus: Heavy Hangs the Golden Grain

To desire to be poor but not to be inconvenienced by poverty, is to desire the honor of poverty and the convenience of riches. St Francis de Sales: Introduction to the Devout Life

Thunder: Heaven's great artillery. R Crashaw: The Flaming Heart

If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself that the tiger is an optical illusion - well, he will find out that he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the dicussion. G K Chesterton: Illusions

He that never climbed, never fell. John Heywood: Proverbs 1, 12

Poetry is devils' wine (Poesis est vinum daemonum). St Augustine: Contra Academicos