cool quotes

[freespirit2001]

"Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty."

---Hannah More

 

[brinny]

Defend the Bible? I would just as soon defend a lion. Just turn the Bible loose. It will defend itself. ~Charles H. Spurgeon

 

[freespirit2001]

"But men never violate the laws of God wihout suffering the consequences, sooner or later."

"A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat."

"Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it;
for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face."

"Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture."

---Lydia M. Child

 

[Guinevere]

Don't know where I got this from, I just like it:

"Failure is God's way of saying, 'You're going the wrong way!' "

 

[brinny]

If God be our God, He will give us peace in trouble. When there is a storm without, He will make peace within. The world can create trouble in peace, but God can create peace in trouble. (Thomas Watson)

 

[tulc]

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly in fools.
-ancient proverb

 

[All4THALORD]

If you get dental floss stuck in your teeth, what do you use to get it out? Popcorn maybe?

 

[All4THALORD]

that was from Brad Stine

 

[tulc]

Beware of the person of one book.
-Saint Thomas Aquinas

 

[freespirit2001]

"When ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions."

---Angela Carter

 

[tulc]

a sad Christmas song:
CHRISTMAS AT DENNY'S


They got Christmas Muzak piped in through the ceiling
And the refills of coffee are always for free
The waitress on graveyard and the surly night manager
Are wishing that all of us losers would leave
There's a star on the sign at the Texaco Station
Like that star long ago on that midnight clear
As I look around at these cold, empty faces
I doubt that you'd find many wise men here

And I'm dreaming about a silent night, holy night
When things were alright
And I'm dreaming about how my life could have been
If only, if only, if only
But somewhere down the road I gave up that fight
Merry Christmas, it's Christmas at Denny's tonight

Once I had a home and a wife and a daughter
Had a company job earning middle-class pay
Then Lisa got killed by a car near the schoolyard
And my wife started drinking
Just to get through each day
I will never forget that little red wagon
Turning to rust all alone in the rain
One morning I flagged down a truck on the highway
I just couldn't bear to go back there again

And I'm dreaming about a silent night, holy night
When things were alright
And I'm dreaming about how my life could have been
If only, if only, if only
Well, it's not just the blind man who loses his sight
Merry Christmas, it's Christmas at Denny's tonight

They say life's full of cruel circumstance
Fate plays the tune and we dance
Dance 'til we drop in the dust and we're gone
And the world just goes on...

The cop at the counter, he's the guardian angel
He watches these orphans through dark mirrored shades
And the register rings like a bell sadly tolling
For the fools we've become and the price we have paid
Oh, when I was a boy, I believed in Christmas
Miracle Season to make a new start
I don't need no miracle
Sweet Baby Jesus just help me find
Some kind of hope in my heart And I'm dreaming about a silent night, holy night
When things were alright
And I'm dreaming about how my life could have been
If only, if only, if only
But I'll still be here at the morning's first light
Merry Christmas, it's Christmas at Denny's tonight
Merry Christmas, it's Christmas at Denny's tonight

-Randy Stonehill

 

[tulc]

Arab proverbs:
A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.

After dinner, rest; after supper walk a mile.

All sunshine makes the desert.

Dawn does not come twice to awaken a man.

Death rides a fast camel.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks

Example is better than precept.

It is good to know the truth, but it is better to speak of palm trees.

Never give advice in a crowd.

On the day of victory no one is tired.

The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.

 

[tulc]

a young monk had been walking for days, on his way to the Capital City to see the sights for himself. as he journeyed, he came upon a river whos bridge had been washed out.

looking around, the young monk spied an older monk on the other side of the river and called out to him "Noble Monk, i would like to cross the river to the other side, can you help me?" the older monk looked puzzled and replied "You are on the other side."
-thank you vajradhara

 

[kelco]

The Quality of Mercy

The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.

William Shakespeare

 

[freespirit2001]

"Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows---then let your heart say in silence, "God rests in reason."

And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightening proclaim the majesty of the sky,---then let your heart say in awe, "God moves in passion."

And since you are a breath in God's sphere, and a leaf in God's forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion."

Kahil Gibran

"He that trusts in his riches shall wither;
but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf."
Proverbs 11:28

[bible]Proverbs 11:30[/bible]

 

[Chrome]

We look on this life as an essence, a soul that progresses through changes. Not all change goes smoothly. For some, it has an earthquake effect that rattles the delicate mind.

~ Fear Factory

 

[kelco]

"Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows---then let your heart say in silence, "God rests in reason."

And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightening proclaim the majesty of the sky,---then let your heart say in awe, "God moves in passion."

And since you are a breath in God's sphere, and a leaf in God's forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion."

Kahil Gibran

Proverbs 11:30The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.

Most Excellent!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chrome]

No, no you go back there and fix that wall before my dad gets home, he's not going to believe a talking bowl of fruit punch came through there!

Dane Cook

 

[All4THALORD]

"Commitment is doing what you said you would do long after the mood in which you said it has passed."-St. Camillus de Lellis
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[teenash]

One of my ABSOLUTE favorites:

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide. That he must take himself, for better or worse, as his portion... Thoreau