Isidore Of Seville Inspirational Quotes (7)

Tolle numerum omnibus rebus et omnia pereunt.Take from all things their number and all shall perish.

We, as Catholics are not permitted to believe anything of our own will, nor to choose what someone has believed of his. We have God's apostles as authorities, who did not themselves of their own wills choose anything of what they wanted to believe, but faithfully transmitted to the nations, the teachings of Christ.

Baptism is not the work of man but of Christ, and this sacrament is so holy that it would not be defiled, even if the minister were a murderer.

Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.

Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tone of that harmony.

The more you devote yourself to study of the sacred utterances, the richer will be your understanding of them, just as the more the soil is tilled, the richer the harvest.

Mary means enlightener, because She brought forth the Light of the world. In the Syriac tongue, Mary signifies Lady.