Phrases of St. Thomas Moro, quotes and aphorisms, prayer of good humor, phrases from the Beatitudes and prayers of the tower, meditations written when he was incarcerated inside the Tower of London, short biography.
Quotes by San Tommaso Moro
- It would be a very miserable doctor to cure one disease by causing another.
- The essential foundation of a healthy society is in the fair sharing of assets.
- Who is more inclined to start a revolution if not who is unhappy with his condition? Who is more tempted by the idea of taking advantage of the subversion of the existing order if not those who have nothing to lose?
- Please, master lieutenant, accompany me up, and as for going down, leave it to me.
- Turn around, exit this three-dimensional world and enter the other world, in the fourth dimension, where the low becomes the high and the high becomes the low.
- The Devil ... that proud spirit ... cannot tolerate being teased.
- While all other living beings become greedy and rapacious for fear of lack, man is so by virtue of his pride, for which he takes pride in overcoming others in the useless ostentation of the superfluous.
- They judged that it was not convenient to want to forcefully and threaten to force anyone to believe what you believe to be true.
- Duty is the action that can produce more good in the world than any other decision.
- Only for happy ones, tears are a luxury.
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Aphorisms of San Tommaso Moro
- Men: if someone plays them a bad shot they write it on marble, but if you do them a favor, they write it on sand.
- If honor were profitable, everyone would be honorable.
- The rulers are always intent on producing new laws, without being able to clarify.
- It is already a very bad deal to lose one's soul for the whole world, let alone for Cornwall.
- Poverty and need control the proudest spirits and discourage rebellions.
- There is no pain on earth that Heaven cannot heal.
- It seems to me that wherever private property is in force, where pecunia is the measure of all things, it is somewhat difficult that a political regime based on justice or prosperity can never be implemented.
- When few people divide wealth among them, accumulating as many goods as they can, most of the population is destined for misery.
- Give me, O Lord, the grace to work on the realization of the things for which I pray.
- Living would be so easy if the desire to accumulate money did not impoverish others.
Phrases of St. Thomas Moro
- It is through reason that mortal souls rise to love and adore the majesty of God, to whom we are indebted not only for our existence but for any happiness.
- From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs.
- Humility, the low, sweet root, from which all celestial virtues originate.
- What is beneficial for some is poisonous for others. It cannot be given to Tizio without robbing Caio.
- All the time that is not strictly necessary for the interests of the state should be used by citizens to escape the slavery of the body, dedicating themselves to freedom of spirit and culture.
- The soul is immortal and destined for happiness by God's will.
- I prefer to say something untrue rather than a lie, because I care more about being considered honest than wise.
- That I can have the strength to change the things that I can change, that I can have the patience to accept the things that I cannot change, that I can above all have the intelligence to know how to distinguish them.
- And it is easier for a proud spirit to choose to be a thief instead of a beggar.
Good mood prayer
Sir, give me good digestion and also something to digest.
Give me the health of the body and the good mood needed to maintain it.
Give me, Lord, a simple soul who knows how to treasure all that is good and is not frightened at the sight of evil but rather
you always find a way to put things right.
Give me a soul that does not know boredom, grumbles, sighs, complaints, and don't allow me to worry too much about that too bulky thing called "me".
Lord, give me a sense of good humor.
Grant me the grace to understand a joke to discover a little joy in life and be part of it to others. Amen.
Beatitudes of San Tommaso Moro
Blessed are those who know how to laugh at themselves, because they will never stop having fun.
Blessed are those who can distinguish a mountain from a pebble, because they will avoid many nuisances.
Blessed are those who know how to rest and sleep without finding excuses: they will become wise.
Blessed are those who know how to listen and keep silent: they will learn new things.
Blessed are those who are intelligent enough not to take themselves seriously: they will be appreciated by their neighbors.
Blessed are those who are attentive to the needs of others, without feeling indispensable: they will be dispensers of joy.
Blessed will you be if you know how to look seriously at small things and calmly the important things: you will go far in life.
Blessed are you if you can appreciate a smile and forget a rude: your path will be full of sun.
Blessed are you if you can always interpret the attitudes of others with benevolence, even against appearances: you will be taken for naive, but this is the price of Charity.
Blessed are those who think before acting and who pray before thinking: they will avoid a lot of nonsense.
Blessed above all you who will know how to recognize the Lord in all who meet you: you will have found true light and true wisdom.
Tower prayers
Grant me, O Lord, the grace to despise the things of the world. To turn my thoughts only to You. Not to depend on the din of men's mouths.
To be happy with loneliness. Not to want earthly companies. To step away from the world gradually, so that my mind can get rid of its excitement.
Not to want to listen to frivolities. That the fantasies of the world may sound unwelcome in my ear. To think of God with joy. To invoke his merciful help.
To abandon myself to the comfort of God. To love him incessantly. To recognize my cowardice and my misery. To humble myself, yielding, to the mighty hand of God.
To repent of the sins committed, so as to bear patient adversity for their remission.
To endure my Purgatory here. To rejoice in tribulations. To cross the narrow paths that lead to life. To carry the cross with Christ.
To remember the supreme things.
To always have my death before my eyes, which is always close to me. Not to consider death extraneous to me. To always meditate on the eternal flames of Hell.
To invoke God's forgiveness before the sentence is issued. To always have in mind the passion that Christ suffered for me. To be incessantly grateful to him for its benefits.
To redeem lost time. To abstain from vain talk. To shy away from silly amusements. To refrain from unnecessary leisure. To consider null the losses of substances, of friends, of freedom, of everything, for the victory of Christ.
To regard my fiercest enemies as my best friends. Because Joseph's brothers could never have done him any better, with their love and affection, than they did to them with their hatred and malice.
These meditations should be considered more precious than all the treasures of all the Christian and pagan princes and kings, piled on each other.
Biography San Tommaso Moro
Tommaso Moro is the Italian name for Thomas More, born in London on February 7, 1478 and died there on July 6, 1535. An English Catholic humanist, writer and politician, he was proclaimed a saint in 1935 by Pope Pius XI.
Since 1980 he is also commemorated by the Anglican Church, as martyr of the Protestant reform, together with the Bishop San Giovanni Fisher.
In the year 2000 he was declared patron of statesmen and politicians by Pope John Paul II, the commemoration party is celebrated every year on June 22nd, together with Saint John Fisher Bishop of Rochester.
The most famous work of San Tommaso Moro is Utopia.
He is also remembered for being the one who refused to take an oath to a parliamentary act of Henry VIII concerning the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
This document affirmed the primacy of the Crown over the Church in England and was the cause of rupture that gave rise to the Anglican schism.
For his decision not to recognize supremacy over faith to the King, Tommaso Moro was sentenced to death on charges of treason.
