cool quotes

[kelco]

Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids--all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile. - - Paul Tornier

SandyLou. I needed to hear this today!

 

[unimportantbuthisnameis]

While hunting in Africa, I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How an elephant got into my pajamas I'll never know. Groucho Marx

 

[SandyLou]

If I have learned one thing in this life,
it is that God will not tie my shoes without me.--doug boyd​

 

[tulc]

Have the patience and courage to begin again each day, and believe that God's mercy is new every morning. Then you will understand that life is always a matter of becoming or growing, and that you can always look forward to greater things. Even though you stand in battle with dark powers, the victory will be yours, since in Christ every evil is overcome. You will always remain at the beginning, because the task continually grows, yet in faith you will find the fulfillment of all your longing.
-Eberhard Arnold

 

[tulc]

I think the greatest source of danger in this world is indifference. I have always believed that the opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. The opposite of life is not death, but indifference. The opposite of peace is not war, but indifference to peace and indifference to war. The opposite of culture, the opposite of beauty, the opposite of generosity is indifference. Indifference is the enemy.
-Elie Wiesel

 

[freespirit2001]

I think the greatest source of danger in this world is indifference. I have always believed that the opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. The opposite of life is not death, but indifference. The opposite of peace is not war, but indifference to peace and indifference to war. The opposite of culture, the opposite of beauty, the opposite of generosity is indifference. Indifference is the enemy.
-Elie Wiesel

Great quote! I also needed to understand the words "apathy" and "diffidence" as the same thing: indifference...

"The necessary condition for the existence of peace and joy is the awareness that peace and joy are available."

----Thich Nhat Hanh, Present Moment, Wonderful Moment

 

[Abiel]

Life...don't talk to me about life...

 

[freespirit2001]

"Truth conquers all Things"---Vineit Omnia Veritas

"Time Discovers the Truth"---Veritatem dies Aperit

"Those who know the Truth are not equal to those who love it."
---Confucius

"The language of Truth (as the wisdom from above...) is unadorned and always simple." ----Marcellius Ammianus

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge in the field of Truth and Knowledge wii be shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
---Einstein

"OF LIFE'S TWO CHIEF PRIZES, BEAUTY AND TRUTH, I FOUND THE FIRST IN A LOVING HEART AND THE SECOND IN A LABORER'S HAND."
---Kahil Gibran

"All that spirits desire, spirits attain." ---Kahil Gibran

 

[lanie]

Someday you will see the light; all He asks is that you trust Him. Walk by faith, not by sight.
In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure.
Jesus would rather die for you than live without you.
You will never walk alone, as long as you have faith, Jesus will be right beside you all the way.
We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness
So many of us young girls have emptiness inside. We try to fill that hole with friends and dating relationships. We have many insecurities and think that maybe in filling our hearts and minds with useless relationships we will find our security. What so many people don't know is that no relationships, not even a good one, can give us complete security. There is a hole in us that only God can fill. Security in Christ is so far beyond any security that you could find in another relationship. God wants to be the one to fill our hearts, if only we will let him…

Next time you think you’re perfect, try walking on water
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was going to end, it turned into a butterfly
It is a great poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish
A nation that kills its own children is a nation without hope
[font=courier new, courier]Look into my eyes for one moment, and then you will realise how much you mean to me.[/font]

 

[2Timothy2]

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

— Samuel Rutherford

 

[kelco]

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. -- Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude

 

[freespirit2001]

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

— Samuel Rutherford

LOLXOXLOL!!!!

 

[NewSong]

A winner never quits and a quitter never wins.

 

[tulc]

(an ancient Viking poem translation)
Just sitten baec an yule heara taele
a taele uva wierd trippe inna tiny boat
dat stearted frum port in sunlands warm

The mate he was mickle sailorman
The skipper also mickle brave
A hand of passenjarls setten sail
for to touring go three hours
the tour maeccan three hours

The weather be for rough getting on
the tiny boat tossed on wild whale road
fearless crew keepin tiny Minnow
from being whale **** you betcha

ship be stoppin not on water
stuck on desert island uncharted
Gilligan be there mickle crew man
the Skipper too fearless sea dog
the mickle coin jarl and his wench
also girl bard mickle busty
and skrealing scholar mighty thinker
and Marje Ayn all onna island


this be the tale ovva castways,
they bein here longen tyme,
the best of things they have to maecan
it uphill climb you betcha

hard werken crew werken their best
maeccan up sunland's nest
No phune no torches
no waggon carts no lokisury
liken Cruso Robinson poor *******
they be primative as can be maeccan

So join skalds here each week
my friends You be smilin
at the seven sea tossed castways
mickle stuck here on "Gilligaen's Isle."
-McKenna

 

[tulc]

In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

-Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)

 

[apadilla]

"The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters."

 

[tulc]

The Band Played Waltzing Matilda

Now when I was a young man I carried me pack
And I lived the free life of the rover.
From the Murray's green basin to the dusty outback,
Well, I waltzed my Matilda all over.
Then in 1915, my country said, "Son,
It's time you stop ramblin', there's work to be done."
So they gave me a tin hat, and they gave me a gun,
And they marched me away to the war.

And the band played "Waltzing Matilda,"
As the ship pulled away from the quay,
And amidst all the cheers, the flag waving, and tears,
We sailed off for Gallipoli.​

And how well I remember that terrible day,
How our blood stained the sand and the water;
And of how in that hell that they call Suvla Bay
We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter.
Johnny Turk, he was waitin', he primed himself well;
He showered us with bullets, and he rained us with shell --
And in five minutes flat, he'd blown us all to hell,
Nearly blew us right back to Australia.

But the band played "Waltzing Matilda,"
When we stopped to bury our slain,
Well, we buried ours, and the Turks buried theirs,
Then we started all over again.​

And those that were left, well, we tried to survive
In that mad world of blood, death and fire.
And for ten weary weeks I kept myself alive
Though around me the corpses piled higher.
Then a big Turkish shell knocked me **** over head,
And when I woke up in me hospital bed
And saw what it had done, well, I wished I was dead --
Never knew there was worse things than dying.

For I'll go no more "Waltzing Matilda,"
All around the green bush far and free --
To hump tents and pegs, a man needs both legs,
No more "Waltzing Matilda" for me.​

So they gathered the crippled, the wounded, the maimed,
And they shipped us back home to Australia.
The armless, the legless, the blind, the insane,
Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla.
And as our ship sailed into Circular Quay,
I looked at the place where me legs used to be,
And thanked Christ there was nobody waiting for me,
To grieve, to mourn and to pity.

But the band played "Waltzing Matilda,"
As they carried us down the gangway,
But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared,
Then they turned all their faces away.​

And so now every April, I sit on my porch
And I watch the parade pass before me.
And I see my old comrades, how proudly they march,
Reviving old dreams of past glory,
And the old men march slowly, all bones stiff and sore,
They're tired old heroes from a forgotten war
And the young people ask "What are they marching for?"
And I ask meself the same question.

But the band plays "Waltzing Matilda,"
And the old men still answer the call,
But as year follows year, more old men disappear
Someday, no one will march there at all. Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda.
Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
And their ghosts may be heard as they march by the billabong,
Who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me?​

-Eric Bogle​

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[2Timothy2]

It is no small advantage to the holy life to "begin the day with God." The saints are wont to leave their hearts with Him over night, that they may find them with Him in the morning. Before earthly things break in upon us, and we receive impressions from abroad, it is good to season the heart with thoughts of God, and to consecrate the early and virgin operations of the mind before they are prostituted to baser objects. When the world gets the start of religion in the morning, it can hardly overtake it all the day.

— Thomas Case

 

[freespirit2001]

"Beethoven did not turn away from life toward some mystical Nirvana. He forgot none of the joy, the effort, or the pain. He abandoned nothing. What he achieved was something much more wonderful than an old man's serenity. "I will take fate by the throat," Beethoven cries in a letter. "It shall not wholly overcome me. Oh, it is so beautiful to live---to live a thousand times!"
---J. W. N. Sullivan, Beethoven: His Spiritual Development

 

[freespirit2001]

"Despair is the qualification of the spirit, it is related to the eternal in man...In unconsciousness of being in despair, a man is furthest from being conscious of himself as spirit." ---Kierkegaard

"Authentic despair is that emotion which forces one to come to terms with one's destiny. It is the great enemy of pretense, the foe of playing ostrich. It is a demand to face the reality of one's life. The "letting go" ...of false hopes, of pretended loves, of infantizing dependency, of empty conformism which serves only to make one behave like sheep huddling in a flock because they fear the wolves outside the circle. Despair is a smelting furnace which melts out the impurities of the ore. Despair is not freedom itself, but it is a necessary preparation for freedom."

Rollo May, Freedom and Destiny: Despair and Joy