John Lancaster Spalding
John Lancaster Spalding
John Lancaster Spaldingwas an American author, poet, advocate for higher education, the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria from 1877 to 1908 and a co-founder of The Catholic University of America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth2 June 1840
CountryUnited States of America
spring mean roots
Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.
animal giving kingdoms
In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
light soul matter
If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
mirrors world looks
The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
beautiful stars flower
The fields and the flowers and the beautiful faces are not ours, as the stars and the hills and the sunlight are not ours, but they give us fresh and happy thoughts.
latin mind may
One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
country writing men
Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.
men fire brave
As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.
wise sacrifice law
If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.
hate like-love opinion
Faith, like love, unites; opinion, like hate, separates.
character vicious difficulty
There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.
exercise authority know-how
The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
eye through-the-eyes controlled
They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
mind world problem
It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.