cool quotes 4 (2)

[tulc]

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
-Mohandas Gandhi

 

[tulc]

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
-Mohandas Gandhi

 

[tulc]

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I
won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
-Mohandas Gandhi

 

[tulc]

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone
who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he
will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once
the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of
unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
--Sir Winston Churchill

 

[tulc]

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of
the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
--Robert Lynd

 

[MadeYouLook]

"A word to the wise ain't necessary. It's the stupid ones who need the advice"- Bill Cosby

 

[freespirit2001]

"No peace among the nations, without peace among the religions.
No peace among the religions, without dialogue among the religions.
No dialogue among the religions, without investigation of the foundation of the religions."

~Hans Kung

 

[freespirit2001]

"There are only four questions of value in life,
Don Octavio:
What is sacred?
Of what is the spirit made?
What is worth loving for, and
What is worth dying for?
The answer to each is the same, only love."

Don Juan DeMarco [Johhny Depp]

 

[freespirit2001]

"This is love:
to fly towards a secret sky
to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.
First to let go of life
Finally, to take a step without feet."

~Rumi

 

[freespirit2001]

"But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
and let the winds of heaven dance between you.
Love one another; but make not a bond of love,
rather let it be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."

~Kahil Gibran

 

[freespirit2001]

"Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud,
It is the Morning Light and the Evening Star.
It shines upon the cradle of the babe,
and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb.
It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of the poet,
patriot and philosopher.
It is the air and light of every heart,
builder of every home,
kinder of every fire on every hearth,
It is the first dream of immortality.
Love is the magician, the enchanter,
that changes worthless things to joy,
makes right royal
kings of common clay."

~Robert Green Ingersoll

 

[freespirit2001]

LEARNING TO FLY

"Into the distance, ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone, my senses reeled
A fatal attraction holding me fast
How can I escape this grasp?

Can't keep my eyes from circling the sky
Tonque-tied and twisted, an earthbound misfit. I.

Ice is forming on the tips of my wings
Unheeded warnings...thought I thought of everything
No navigator to guide my way home
Unladened, empty, and turned to stone.

A soul in tension that's learning to fly
Condition grounded but determined to try
Can't keep my eyes from circling the sky
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit. I.


Above the planet on a wing and a prayer
My grubby halo, a vapor trail in empty air
Across the clouds I see my shadow fly
Out of the corner of my watering eye
A dream unthreatened by the morning light
Could blow that soul through the roof of the night

There's no sensation to compare with this,
Suspended animation a state of bliss
Can't keep my eyes from circling the sky
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth bound misfit. I.

Pink Floyd: A Momentary Lapse of Reason


"We are treated as imposters, and yet are true;
As unknown, yet well-known;
As dying, and behold we live;
As punished, yet not killed;
As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing;
As poor, yet making many rich;
As having nothing, and yet, possessing everything."

RSV 2 Corinthians 6:8-10

 

[freespirit2001]

"A cloud covers the sun,
and much discourse covers over the soul
that has begun to receive illumination in contemplative prayer."

~St.Isaac of Syria

 

[freespirit2001]

"In paradisum deducant te angeli,
in tuo adventu suscipiante te martyres,
et perducant te in civitatem sanctam Jerusalem.
Chorus angelorum te suspipat,
et cum Lazaro quondam paupere aeternam habeau requiem:

May the angels led you into Paradise,
May the Martyrs receive you in their coming, and
May they guide you into the Holy City, Jerusalem.
May the chorus of angels receive you
and with Lazarus
once poor, may you have eternal rest."

 

[freespirit2001]

"You may forget the one with whom you have laughed,
but never the one with whom you have wept."

Kahil Gibran

 

[Daniels]

Jesus Loves you too!

 

[freespirit2001]

"By spiritual knowledge, I do not mean wisdom,
but the unerring apperception of God and of divine realities through which the devout,
no longer dragged down by the passions,
are raised to a divine state by the grace of the Spirit."

~ St.Theognostos

 

[tulc]

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- the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter.
Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.
~Andrew Wyeth[/FONT]

 

[tulc]

One kind word can warm three winter months.
~Japanese Proverb

 

[inHisgripkim]

Have you learned this lesson of waiting upon the Lord? Can you commit your ways to him and feel that if desire is still unsatisfied, if obstacles are not yet removed, if trials yet bear upon you, the Father-love is not growing cold, nor his hearing dull, nor has he forgotten? In the proper time and way the answer will be sure, and because of the delay the answer will be fuller and will enrich you more than if it had come when first you asked. Wait patiently on the Lord, trust also in him, be not weary in well-doing, and out of your waiting will come strength, and out of your sorrow will come rejoicing, and out of the bitterness will come sweetness, and at the end of the way you will find a crown and life everlasting.​

C.W. Naylor​