cool quotes

[freespirit2001]

Great quotes, Athalia and Tulc! (*!*)

 

[tulc]

"There is no need to sally forth,
for it remains true that those things which
make us human are, curiously enough,
always close at hand. Resolve, then,
that on this very ground, with small flags
waving and tiny blasts of tiny trumpets,
we shall meet the enemy, and not only
may he be ours, he may be us."
-Pogo

 

[freespirit2001]

" The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom."

Kahil Gibran

 

[tulc]

"It is not righteouesness that ye turn your faces towards the East or West but
it is righteousness to believe in God and the last day , the Angels and the Books and
his Messengers and to spend of your substance out of love for your kin, for the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer, for those who ask ,and for the ransom of slaves, to be steadfast in prayer ,and practise regular charity , to fulfill the contracts you have made and to be firm and patient in pain ( or suffering) and adversity and throughout all periods of panic .
Such are the people of truth, the God fearing."
-2:117 Yusuf Ali transalation .koran

 

[BrownEyes]

let go and let god - Voice of Christ Los Angeles Youth Group

it doesn't matter if we get a blessing from God... what matters is what we do with it - Pastor Derek Meekins

where you go i will go, where you stay i will stay, where you die i will die and your God will be my God. - Ruth

it's not the fact that God PUT me through that situation so that i can GET stronger... it's the fact that God HELPED me through it so that i could BE stronger - A random girl i was chatting with the other night

 

[vibrant]

God brought me from heaven to earth; my wife brings me from earth to heaven.

the guy from life is beautiful in response to a question as to why his wife's always with him.

 

[altya]

Greet all with gentleness and kindness so that all will know that you know Your God and will want to know Him too.

 

[led]

my pop once said "always do one more than you think you can." he was talking about lifting weights at the time but those words have always pushed me when I was totally out of gas.

 

[tulc]

A godly woman dies and goes to her reward, and is being shown around heaven by St. Peter. They walk through meadows and fields filled with people of all ages and colors, warmed by a gentle sun, lulled by the strains of soft sweet music -- black and white and Asian and Indian people, Hindus,Jews, Muslims, all of a family, laughing, resting by ponds, playing, listening, being. And then they come to a great walled portion of heaven,miles of land surrounded by tall thick walls.

"'What's this?' the woman asks.

"'Oh, that's where the fundamentalists stay,' said Peter. 'It's only nice for them when they think they're the only ones here.'"
-Anne Lamott

 

[freespirit2001]

" Friendship is love without his wings!"

Lord Byron (1806)


" I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, who has sight so keen and strong
That it can follow flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak,
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Happy Valentines Day !

 

[elanor]

Oh, dear. The Anne Lamott door has been opened. She is one of my top three all-time favorite authors. I can never decide if she's two or three. Here's one of my favorite Anne Lamott lines:

Describing a time when she was in shock upon hearing some unsettling news:

"I felt suspended and vacuumy, like when you've been underwater for too long, or that moment when the drugs have just kicked in and you haven't had time to adjust to the fact that the kitty can now speak English."

 

[tulc]

Actions Speak Louder
We are now in a crisis; our actions no longer fit our words. Those who call themselves atheists bear witness to the future of love and to solidarity with the deprived and dispossessed, while those who call themselves Christians are for the most part the possessors and preservers of the status quo.
-Eberhard Arnold

 

[tulc]

All The Diamonds in The World

All the diamonds in this world
That mean anything to me
Are conjured up by wind and sunlight
Sparkling on the sea

I ran aground in a harbour town
Lost the taste for being free
Thank God He sent some gull-chased ship
To carry me to sea

Two thousand years and half a world away
Dying trees still grow greener when you pray

Silver scales flash bright and fade
In reeds along the shore
Like a pearl in sea of liquid jade
His ship comes shining
Like a crystal swan in a sky of suns
His ship comes shining.
-Bruce Cockburn

 

[tulc]

"When the natural weakness and imperfection of human understanding is considered, with the unavoidable influences of education, custom, books and company, upon our ways of thinking, I imagine a man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds, are true, and all he rejects are false."
-Benjamin Franklin
(stole this from lunachick's sig)

 

[tof]

Jesus a pleuré, Voltaire a souri; c'est de cette larme
divine and de ce sourire humain qu'est faite la
douceur de la civilisation actuelle.
[Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. Of that divine tear and
of that human smile the sweetness of present civilisation
is composed.]

Victor Hugo

 

[freespirit2001]

"When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart,"
but rather, "I am in the heart of God."


Kahil Gibran

 

[WarSong]

Sic Semper Tyrannis

 

[tulc]

"Thus to all tyrants"
-Booth

 

[elanor]

Off topic: Hope you feel better soon, warsong!

 

[Jesus Tribe]

"100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased."​

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--The Weight of Glory
CS Lewis​