cool quotes

[freespirit2001]

"The true end of Man....it is the higest and the most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole. Freedom is the first and indispensible condition which the possibilty of such a development presupposes."

---Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

 

[freespirit2001]

"My very chains and I grew friends,
So much a communion tends
To make us what we are:--even I
Regain'd my freedom with a sigh."

---George Gordon, Lord Byron, "The Prisoner of Chillon"

 

[freespirit2001]

"The time has come to proclaim to a nobler humanity, the freedom of the spirit, and no longer to have patience with men's tearful regrets for their lost chains."

---Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling

"Freedom and Destiny: The Renewal of Life" Rollo May

 

[tndrwarrior]

Here's a very cool one despite being a bit long. It's mentioned in The Ragamuffin Gospel.

OK nevermind. Don't have access to the book right now.

Here's one in place of it just so this post isn't a complete waste of your time.

"He is ready to be virtuous, but likes to be easy and comfortable in this world as well. In short, his aim is to make a home for himself between two extremes in a temperate zone without violent storms and tempests; and in this he succeeds though it be at the cost of that intensity of life and feeling which an extreme life affords."

Nothing too profound I just think he says it nicely.

 

[2Timothy2]

Those who are free are not those who can do whatever they want. Rather those are free who can want to do what they ought to do.

- Wandsbeker Bote

 

[carmi]

When they tell me I'm too old to do something, I attempt it immediately.
Pablo Picasso

 

[2Timothy2]

"We learn from history that we learn nothing from history."

- George Bernard Shaw

 

[brinny]

"Stick with the one who can see the truth of your soul." ~Unknown

 

[Athalia]

"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it." A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence." Tony Blair

I think i'd like to be a woman like that.

 

[2Timothy2]

My first message for heavenly relief went singing over millions of miles of space in 1869, and brought relief to my troubled heart. But, thanks be to Him, I have received many delightful and helpful answers during the last fifty years. I would think the commerce of the skies had gone into bankruptcy if I did not hear frequently, since I have learned how to ask and how to receive.

- H. W. Hodge

 

[tulc]

One of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragement...It is
easy to laugh at men's ideals; it is easy to pour cold water on their
enthusiasm; it is easy to discourage others. The world is full of
discouragers. We have a Christian duty to encourage one another. Many a
time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on
his feet. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word.
-William Barclay

 

[2Timothy2]

If Hannah’s prayer for a son had been answered at the time she set for herself, the nation might never have known the mighty man of God it found in Samuel. Hannah wanted only a son, but God wanted more. He wanted a prophet, and a saviour, and a ruler for His people. Someone said that ‘God had to get a woman before He could get a man.’ This woman He got in Hannah precisely by those weeks and months and years there came a woman with a vision like God’s, with tempered soul and gentle spirit and a seasoned will, prepared to be the kind of a mother for the kind of a man God knew the nation needed.

- W. E. Binderwolf

 

[2Timothy2]

If two angels were to receive at the same moment a commission from God, one to go down and rule earth’s grandest empire, the other to go and sweep the streets of its meanest village, it would be a matter of entire indifference to each which service fell to his lot, the post of ruler or the post of scavenger; for the joy of the angels lies only in obedience to God’s will, and with equal joy they would lift a Lazarus in his rags to Abraham’s bosom, or be a chariot of fire to carry an Elijah home.

- John Newton

 

[freespirit2001]

If two angels were to receive at the same moment a commission from God, one to go down and rule earth’s grandest empire, the other to go and sweep the streets of its meanest village, it would be a matter of entire indifference to each which service fell to his lot, the post of ruler or the post of scavenger; for the joy of the angels lies only in obedience to God’s will, and with equal joy they would lift a Lazarus in his rags to Abraham’s bosom, or be a chariot of fire to carry an Elijah home.

- John Newton

BEAUTIFUL!!!!

 

[freespirit2001]

"ANY OBSTRUCTION [IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD] THAT OUGHT TO BE REMOVED BECAUSE IT IS CONTRARY TO DIVINE ORDER, THE ANGELS CAST DOWN OR OVERTHROW MERELY BY AN EFFORT OF THE WILL AND A LOOK."

---Emmanuel Swedenburg

 

[freespirit2001]

"WHAT IS MAN WITHOUT HIS BEASTS?
IF ALL THE BEASTS WERE GONE,
MEN WOULD DIE FROM GREAT LONLINESS OF SPIRIT.
FOR WHATEVER HAPPENS TO THE BEASTS,
SOON HAPPENS TO MAN,
ALL THINGS ARE CONNECTED."

Chief Seattle (Duwamish Tribe)

 

[freespirit2001]

"THE SOUL WOULD HAVE NO RAINBOW HAD THE EYES NO TEARS."

---JOHN VANCE CHANEY

 

[sothankful]

Addaperle,

"Aspire not to have more but to be more"

Also to be more is helping others be more. There is a saying also that goes: "If you want to realize
your dreams, you must first, help others acheive theirs".


Thanks, you are a very wise person. This just became one of my favorite all time quotes. :o)

Actually, this is one of the ways I would describe myself and how I "try" to live my life.

People often tell me I add so much to the lives of others, but when it comes to self
cofidence, it sure doesn't seem that I do.

That is until recently. I am finally seeing the respect others have for me, "THANK GOD", IN HIS OWN TIME.

Finding a great christian led group and finding this place, I am having coinfidence not only in myself, but also in my faith again. :o)

God Bless.

 

[freespirit2001]

"All of us who are human beings are in the image of God. But to be in His likeness belongs only to those who by great love have attached their freedom to God."

---Dradochus of Photike

 

[psalms 91]

go ye forth into all the world, this is a commandment not an option