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[tulc]

It is no use saying that we are born two thou-
sand years too late to give room to Christ. Nor
will those who live at the end of the world have
been born too late. Christ is always with us,
always asking for room in our hearts.

But now it is with the voice of our contemporaries
that He speaks, with the eyes of store clerks,
factory workers, and children that he gazes; with
the hands of office workers, slum dwellers, and
suburban housewives that He gives. It is with
the feet of soldiers and tramps that He walks,
and with the heart of anyone in need that He
longs for shelter. And giving shelter or food to
anyone who asks for it, or needs it, is giving it to
Christ...

If we hadn't got Christ's own words for it, it would
seem raving lunacy to believe that if I offer a bed
and food and hospitality to some man or woman
or child, my guest is Christ. There is nothing to
show it, perhaps. There are no halos already
glowing round their heads - at least none that
human eyes can see.

So we are not born too late. We can serve Christ
by seeing him and serving him in friends and
strangers, in everyone we come in contact with.
-Dorothy Day

 

[vitya]

With the Jawbone of an Donkey
And he found a new jawbone of an Donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
And Samson said, With the jawbone of an Donkey, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of an Donkey have I slain a thousand men.
--Judges 15:15,16

 

[Theofilus]

The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but it is just as hard to mow. Unknown

 

[tulc]

The Lake Isle of Innisfree
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.
-William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

 

[tulc]

High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand
And touched the face of God.
-John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

 

[tulc]

I know that I find more and more that I wish to be alone, and yet contradictorily I believe I have a new patience with humanity that I’ve never had before. When you’ve lived with the unnatural mass cruelty that mankind is capable of inflicting upon itself, you find yourself dispossessed of the faculty for blaming one poor man for the triviality of his faults. I don’t see how any survivor of war can ever be cruel to anything, ever again.
-Ernie Pyle

 

[TheDandyMan]

Don't sweat petty things. Likewise, don't pet sweaty things.

 

[caitlincares]

[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities
no doubt have crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely
and with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with
your old nonsense.
This day is all that is
good and fair.
It is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on yesterdays.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson[/font]

 

[Theofilus]

If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

Albert Einstein​

 

[elanor]

Don't sweat petty things. Likewise, don't pet sweaty things.

 

[Theofilus]

I can't tell if I'm breathing. I can't see the air. Wolfman Jack after landing at Keflavik and being asked the inevitable question - "How do you like Iceland?"

 

[vitya]

If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane -- if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground -- ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility. From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must look to God.
... C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

 

[tulc]

"I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed
because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do."
-D. Dale Gulledge

 

[TiReMi]

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.


Aldous Huxley

 

[Kas]

Hear are some of my own!

Has anyone ever proven to you the principle of proof? If not, then why do you believe in it then!

Tolerance is just how we brand our own set of prejudices; intolerance is how we brand those who don't share our own set of prejudices!

Freedom is not connected to choice, its connected to knowledge.

an extremist is just what we call someone whose opinions are far from our own.

But you are an extremist, extremly materialistic, extremely hedonistic, extremely self centered.

Your freedom is bought for you on the backs of the countless millions that are enslaved in africa and asia and latin america, so that you can live a life of luxury, don't talk to me about your kind of freedom!

genocide! what about the millions of babies killed every year in the US alone, the silent screams of countless children murdered in cold blood becouse they are not deemed to be human! Don't talk to me about human rights!

Liberal modernity is sexist, it seeks to obliterate the very notion of gender and deny womenhood! Capatalism does not care if you are on your period! My faith adorns a women with her own unique nature and says that, thatnature is from GOD and should be respected, not supressed or villinised.

hear is some that are not my own, I don't know who said tyhem but they stuck with me non the less!

When I feed the poor they call me a saint, when I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist!

your not what you think you are; what you think, you are!

our doubts are traitors, and deny us the good that we might gain, through fear to attempt!-Shakespear

I maybe drunk dear, but I shall be sober in the morning!-Winston Churchil

Who remembers the Armenian massacres?-Hitler

 

[tulc]

When I feed the poor they call me a saint, when I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist!

I think that was Dom Helder Camara, Archbishop of Recife, Brazil

 

[Theofilus]

Not only are you what you think you are, more so; what you think, you are. - Anthony J. D'Angelo

 

[tulc]

Prayer and action, therefore, can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows in powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation. If prayer leads us into a deeper unity with the compassionate Christ, it will always give rise to concrete acts of service. And if concrete acts of service do indeed lead us to a deeper solidarity with the poor, the hungry, the sick, the dying, and the oppressed, they will always give rise to prayer. In prayer we meet Christ, and in him all human suffering. In service we meet people, and in them the suffering Christ.
-Henri J. M. Nouwen (1932-1996)

 

[tulc]

[font=Georgia,Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only 2,000 years ago. He bears it today, and he dies and is resurrected from day to day. It would be a poor comfort to the world if it had to depend on a historical God who died 2,000 years ago. Do not then preach the God of history, but show him as he lives today through you.
-Mohandas K. Gandhi
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[Theofilus]

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
Nancy Reagan