cool quotes

[elanor]

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego.
-Jean Arp

Oh, man, ain't that the truth! I love silence even more than music.

"The essential thing in heaven and earth is ….that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living."

--Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[tulc]

(thanks elanor!)
In the old days, on Easter night, the Russian peasants used to carry the blest fire home from church. The light would scatter and travel in all directions through the darkness, and the desolation of the night would be pierced and dispelled as lamps came on in the windows of the farm houses, one by one. Even so the glory of God sleeps everywhere, ready to blaze out unexpectedly in created things. Even so His peace and His order lie hidden in the world, even the world of today, ready to re-establish themselves in His way, in His own good time: but never without the instrumentality of free options made by free men.
-Thomas Merton

 

[tulc]

Now the green blade riseth from the buried grain,
Wheat that in darkness many days has lain;
Love lives again, that with the dead has been:
Love is come again, like wheat that springeth green.

In the grave they laid Him, Love whom men had slain,
Thinking that never He would wake again,
Laid in the earth, like grain that sleeps unseen:
Love is come again, like wheat that springeth green.

Forth He came at Easter like the risen grain,
He that for three days in the grave had lain;
Quick from the dead my risen Lord is seen:
Love is come again, like wheat that springeth green.

When are hearts are wintry, grieving, or in pain,
Thy touch can call us back to life again,
Fields of our hearts, that dead and bare have been:
Love is come again, like wheat that springeth green.
-J.M.C. Crum

 

[Bulldog]

"My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will." ~Charles Haddon Spurgeon

 

[oworm]

"Great sermons begin with the insights drawn from seeing what others no longer see and feeling what the majority no longer feel"
Charles R Swindoll

 

[Buskanaka]

To see a world in a grain of sand
And heaven in a wild flower.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
- William Blake

In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
-Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

 

[Theofilus]

"I want to know how God created the universe. I'm not interested in this or that phenomenon... I want to know His thoughts. The rest are details."
Albert Einstein

 

[Philippe2]

If you are nothing when you don't have the gold medal; you will still be nothing when you have the gold medal. "Cool Runnings"

 

[tulc]

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at
different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
-Clive James

 

[tulc]

When you finally understand the universe,
it will not only be stranger than you imagine,
it will be stranger than you CAN imagine.
-Arthur C. Clarke

 

[Chadwickboy]

some of my favorites:

"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian."
- Dennis Wholey (1937-)

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"In order to keep a true perspective of one’s importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him."
- Dereke Bruce

"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure... life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller

"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes." - unknown

I have lots of others I like I may post later...

 

[freespirit2001]

(Those are great ones Chadwickboy!...keep posting them!!!)

"Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits."


---Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

 

[tulc]

The mystery of the poor is this: That they are Jesus, and what you do for them you do for Him. It is the only way we have of knowing and believing in our love. The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.
-Dorothy Day

 

[Chadwickboy]

more quotes:

"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig." - Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

Tip: Never eat in an ethnic restaurant in which no people of that ethnicity are eating.
BTW:
("If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me.")
--Bobcat Goldthwait

Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think
Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today?
(1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
(2) Advising the President.
(3) Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin.
-- David Letterman

and to finish this post off, another quote I think is funny...

"Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change,
the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the
bodies of those I had to kill because they ****ed me off." - unknown

 

[Beanface]

"You might not agree with what i have to say, but i'll defend to your death my right to say it"

LOL I like that... but Voltaire woudl be turning in his grave if he knew....

I figure I'll post the quote becuase I love it :

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

 

[Theofilus]

"I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogma." - Ernst Mach (1836-1916), professor of physics at the University of Vienna.

 

[HumbleBee]

Much previous prayer means muchhhhhhhh peace in present pressures!

Philippians 4:6-7 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

 

[Christi]

It is good for us to think no grace or blessing truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.--Phillips Brooks

 

[Mϋzikdϋde]

In the body of Christ I am the uvula; I just hang around and no one knows what my function is but they expect me to be there. ~Muzikdude~

I can quote myself right?

 

[tulc]

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
-Kahlil Gibran