Girolamo Quotes & Sayings

The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use against the heretics. Yet they and other philosophers are now in hell. — Girolamo Savonarola

The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen. — Girolamo Savonarola

Change is REFINEMENT. Change is GROWTH. Change is MOVEMENT. Change is OPPORTUNITY. — Jeffrey Gitomer

Together he [Girolamo Savonarola] and his archenemy Lorenzo [de' Medici] would have been the stuff of gargoyles. One could almost imagine the diptych in which their profiles confronted each other, their noses as powerful as their personalities. — Sarah Dunant

Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story. — Penelope Lively

His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144) — Jonathan Kellerman

Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty. — Girolamo Savonarola

If there be no enemy, no fight; if do fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown. — Girolamo Savonarola

The world has come to such a state that one can no longer find anyone who does good. — Girolamo Savonarola

It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since. — Girolamo Savonarola

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms. — Barry Commoner

Age is not always the best judge of competence. — Meg Rosoff

Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine. — Girolamo Savonarola

Lord! teach me the way my soul should walk. — Girolamo Savonarola

Some have narrowed their minds, and so fettered them with the chains of antiquity that not only do they refuse to speak save as the ancients spake, but they refuse to think save as the ancients thought. God speaks to us, too, and the best thoughts are those now being vouchsafed to us. We will excel the ancients! — Girolamo Savonarola

I am the hailstorm that shall break the heads of those who do not take shelter. — Girolamo Savonarola

God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you. — Girolamo Savonarola

No free will of the creature can resist the will of God — Girolamo Zanchi

I prefer solitude to companions, since there are so few men who are trustworthy, and almost none truly learned. I do not say this because I demand scholarship in all men -- although the sum total of men's learning is small enough; but I question whether we should allow anyone to waste our time. The wasting of time is an abomination. — Girolamo Cardano

It came from God, and so is Christ true, and Christ is thy God, who is in heaven and awaits thee. — Girolamo Savonarola

Don't be ashamed to learn from others. — Girolamo Savonarola

Something that small shouldn't be so powerful, but I swear there's this pull between us, and every time I touch her, every time I even look at her, it gets stronger. Like she's an ocean tide, and I'm caught up in her current. And there's no point in fighting my way to the surface because I don't know which way is up or down. I don't know anything except that I want her. — Cora Carmack