cool quotes

[freespirit2001]

"Father, help me realize that now is eternity and that there is only the dimension of the now in which to awaken to Thy unquenchable love that will not let me go."

---Bernard of Clairaux

 

[ShilohCity]

"happiness is being to sick to go to school but not too sick ti watch tv."
-charlie brown

 

[tulc]

"And I cannot touch her face
And I cannot touch her hair,
And I kneel to empty shadows--
Just memories of her grace;
And her voice sings in the winds
And in the sobs of dawn
And among the flowers at night
And from the brooks at sunrise
And from the sea at sunset,
And I answer with vain callings"
-WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON

 

[Chrome]

when i encounter someone who think the government owes them. (usually kids)
i'll just counter with

"its not what your country can do for you, its what you can do for your country"
~Kennedy

they can't argue against it.

 

[freespirit2001]

"Someone asked Abba Antony, "What must one do in order to please God?"
The old man replied, "Pay attention to what I tell you:
Whoever you may be, always have God before your eyes;
Whatever you do, do to according to the Holy Scriptures;
In whatever place you live do not easily leave it.
Keep these three precepts and you will be saved."

----Saying of St. Antony the Great

 

[freespirit2001]

"The true contemplative is not the one who prepares his mind for a particular message that he wants or expects to hear;
but who remains empty because he knows that he can never excpect or anticipate the word that will trasform his darkness into light."

---Thomas Merton

 

[freespirit2001]

"Once again, in order to find Christ we must give up our own limited idea of Christ. He is not what we think He is. He is not, and cannot be, merely our own idealized image of ourselves."

---Thomas Merton

 

[psalms 91]

is peace so sweet as to be bought at the price of liberty, as for the course i choose give me liberty or give me death. patrick henry

 

[freespirit2001]

"To repent is to open our eyes to the light....To repent is to wake up..."

---Kallistos Ware

[bible]Psalms 119:18[/bible]

 

[2Timothy2]

It is not easy speedily to bring into the right way the man who has a long time previously been held fast by error. It may, however, be effected: for, when a man turns away ever so little from error, the mention of the truth is acceptable to him. For, just as when the cloud breaks ever so little there comes fair weather, even so, when a man turns toward God, the thick cloud of error which deprived him of true vision is quickly withdrawn from before him. For error, like disease10 and sleep, long holds fast those who come under its influence;11 but truth uses the word as a goad, and smites the slumberers, and awakens them; and when they are awake they look at the truth, and also understand it: they hear, and distinguish that which is from that which is not. For there are men who call iniquity righteousness: they think, for example, that it is righteousness for a man to err with the many. But I, for my part, affirm that it is not a good excuse for error that a man errs with the many. For, if one man only sin,12 his sin is great: how much greater will be the sin when many sin together!

- Melito

 

[tulc]

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and
is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is
new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order
of things.
-Douglas Adams

 

[brinny]

"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it."

- Rabindranath Tagore

 

[kelco]

Sounds Of Silence

Hello darkness my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence

"Fools" said I "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grow
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said "The words of the prophets are written on subway walls
And tenement halls
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence

Paul Simon

 

[freespirit2001]

"The name of Jesus should be repeated over and over in the heart as flashes of lightening are repeated over and over in the sky before the rain...."

---St. Hesychios the Priest

 

[tulc]

Death cannot stop true love; what it can do is delay it for a while.
-The Princess Bride

 

[freespirit2001]

"I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folk are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed."

---The Scarecrow from the Land of Oz, by L. Frank Baum

 

[freespirit2001]

"Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we do not know."

Lisette Model


www.northstargallery.com/pages/QuotesPhoto.htm

 

[tulc]

The girls today in society
Go for classical poetry,
So to win their hearts one must quote with ease
Aeschylus and Euripides.
But the poet of them all
Who will start 'em simply ravin'
Is the poet people call
The bard of Stratford-on-Avon.

Brush up your Shakespeare,
Start quoting him now.
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow.
Just declaim a few lines from "Othella"
And they think you're a heckuva fella.
If your blonde won't respond when you flatter 'er
Tell her what Tony told Cleopaterer,
And if still, to be shocked, she pretends well,
Just remind her that "All's Well That Ends Well."
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kowtow.

Brush up your Shakespeare,
Start quoting him now.
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow.
If your goil is a Washington Heights dream
Treat the kid to "A Midsummer Night Dream."
If she fights when her clothes you are mussing,
What are clothes? "Much Ado About Nussing."
If she says your behavior is heinous
Kick her right in the "Coriolanus."
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kowtow,
And they'll all kowtow,
And they'll all kowtow.

Brush up your Shakespeare,
Start quoting him now.
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow.

Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kowtow,
-Cole Porter

 

[freespirit2001]

"Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe! Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number....I do not ask to see the reason for it all...I ask only to share the wonder of it all."

---Rabbi Joshua Abraham Heschel

 

[freespirit2001]

"To have found God and still pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart."

---A.W. Tozer "The Pursuit of God"