Quotes about Harmony

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

Human friendship also is endeared with a sweet tie, by reason of the unity formed of many souls.

The life also which here we live hath its own enchantment, through a certain proportion of its own, and a correspondence with all things beautiful here below.

Let truth spring out of the earth, and righteousness look down from heaven.

And I saw that all things did harmonize, not with their places only, but with their seasons.

Sound judgment is to be preferred even to examples, and indeed examples harmonize with the voice of reason; but not all examples, but those only which are distinguished by their piety, and are proportionately worthy of imitation.

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

O sons of Peace, sons of the One Catholic [Church], walk in your way, and sing as you walk. Travelers do this in order to keep up their spirits.

He who sings prays twice.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in it enters in diffrent places but it all becomes one.

I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen the perfume of the violet or the sweet simplicity of the daisy. I understood that if all the lowly flowers wished to be roses, nature would no longer be enameled with lovely hues. And so it is in the world of souls, Our Lord's living garden.