cool quotes

[freespirit2001]

"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya.
You killed my father.
Prepare to die!"

Inigo Montoya
(The Princess Bride)

 

[praying]

Why fear the dark?
How can we help but love it
when it is the darkness
that brings the stars to us?
What's more: who does not know
that it is on the darkest nights
that the stars acquire
their greatest splendor?


- Dom Helder Camara (1909-1999), Brazilian Catholic archbishop

 

[tulc]

The poor man and woman of the gospel have made peace with their flawed
existence. They are aware of their lack of wholeness, their brokenness, the
simple fact that they don't have it all together. While they do not excuse
their sin, they are humbly aware that sin is precisely what has caused them
to throw themselves at the mercy of the Father. They do not pretend to be
anything but what they are: sinners saved by grace.
-Brennan Manning

 

[The Meaning Of...]

"As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality." - George Washington

"The bible is not my book, nor christianity my religion." - Abraham lincoln

 

[All4THALORD]

Love your enemies, bless those who curse you
-Jesus

 

[elanor]

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?" - Mahatma Gandhi

 

[freespirit2001]

"He to whom worshipping is a window, to open but also to shut, has not yet visited the house of his soul whose windows are from dawn to dawn."

Kahil Gibran, "On Religion"



"And what shall I give to him who left his plough in midfurrow, or to him who has stopped the wheel of his winepress?

Shall my heart become a tree heavy-laden with fruit that I may gather and give unto them?

And shall my desires flow like a fountain that I may fill their cups?

Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that His breath may pass through me?

A seeker of silences am I, and what treasures have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?

If this is my day of harvest, in what fields have I sowed seed, and in what unremembered seasons?

If this indeed be the hour in which I lift up my lantern, it is not my flame that shall burn therein.

Empty and dark shall I raise up my lantern.

And the guardian of the night shall fill it with oil and he shall light it also.

These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid. For he himself could not speak his deeper secret."

---Kahil Gibran, from "The Coming of the Ship"

 

[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)

 

[ShilohCity]

"My own dog gone commercial. I can't stand it." ~ Charlie Brown

 

[tulc]

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet
to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has
the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
-Saint Augustine

 

[tulc]

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the
intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful
to these teachers.
-Gibron

 

[ShilohCity]

somebody started thinking about the third line
and maybe someone's saying a prayer for the first time
and that's enough reason to keep me singing my songs.

Chris Rice

 

[freespirit2001]

"He who has faith has an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness and assuring trust that all will come out well---even though to the world it may appear to come out badly."

---B.C. Forbes

 

[freespirit2001]

"Faith is taking the first step even when we don't see the whole staircase."

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

[ShilohCity]

some people say a man is made out of mud
a poor man's made out of muscle and blood
muscle and blood and skin and bones
a mind that weak and a back that's strong

Tennessee Ernie Ford

 

[freespirit2001]

TURN AROUND Eberhard Arnold

"Humanity must turn around. What good are all its religious practices, what good are its church services, what point is there in all its devout singing if God's will is not done and hands remain steeped in blood? What does people's faith mean if injustice is done to the poor as casually as one drinks a glass of water? What good is it to profess the divine if not even a little finger is lifted when countless children and poor people die?"

 

[WarSong]

Gun owners choose to protect themselves, thank you very much. They do not need government protection anymore than any of the other ill conceived plans of the left. And that is why the liberals want to control their guns. It is the only means they have to directly control the lives of those who would otherwise go on ignoring them.

Justin Darr

 

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[freespirit2001]

"Metaphorically, freedom in its essence is the acceptance of the chains which suit you and for which you are suited, and of the harness in which you pull towards and en chosen and valued by yourself, and not imposed. It is not, and never can be, the absence of restrictions, obligations or law and of duty."

---Bronislaw Malinowski (from "Freedom and Destiny: On Human Destiny" by Rollo May)

 

[freespirit2001]

"Man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity."

---Paul Tillich

"I have no need to see and to test in order to be set free. I am free even in the confusion of servitude. I enjoy the freedom of the future, generations in advance. And when I die, I shall die a free man, for I have fought for freedom my whole life long."

---Nikos Kazantzakis

"Freedom and Destiny: The Dynamics of Freedom" Rollo May