cool quotes

[tulc]

The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of the air and pondered the improbability of their existence in this warm world within the cold and empty stellar distances will hardly balk at the turning of water into wine — which was, after all, a very small miracle. We forget the greater and still continuing miracle by which water (with soil and sunlight) is turned into grapes.
-Wendell Berry

 

[Talyx]

"True love begins when nothing is looked for in return"
-Antoine De Saint Exupery

 

[altya]

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

 

[dsdumpling]

I had a science teacher in 7th grade (many, many years ago) and he would make us write a sentence a billion times if we were bad in class. It runs along the bottom of my sig. At the time, it didn't mean anything to me, now it really makes a lot of sense.

 

[tulc]

Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion
- Pierce

 

[fbisnowbunny]

1.I smile beacuse I have no idea what is going on

2. going to church dosent make you any more of a christian that going to a garage makes you a car.

 

[tulc]

Bagpipes-(noun)-I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made object never equalled the purity of sound achieved by the pig.
-Alfred Hitchcock

 

[tulc]

"U'fros aleynu sukkat shelomecha" -
May the day soon come when our entire world will dwell under a divine shelter of peace.

 

[altya]

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

 

[tulc]

“You should be perfect like the Father.” There is no other perfection, only that of love. So be aware of the things that thwart this love: property and worry! Wherever possessions are heaped up while elsewhere people go hungry and cold, there is no love. So gather no wealth for yourself. Do not worry. Worriers build life on wealth just as much as the wealthy. Look at the birds and flowers, and believe in the loving God, the Father who provides everything."
-Eberhard Arnold

 

[altya]

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

 

[tulc]

"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
-P. J. O'Rourke
(and thanks to revolutio for having this quote in his sig!)

 

[tulc]

When have Christians been promised physical security? In the early Church it is evident that they did not even expect it! Their security, their true life, was rooted in God; and neither the daily insecurities of the decaying Roman Empire, nor the organized persecution which followed later, could affect their basic confidence.
-J. B. Phillips

 

[altya]

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

 

[tulc]

Blood is thicker than water.
Coffee is thicker than water.
Coincidence?
(I stole this from Cthulhu coffee, rude but funny!)

 

[tulc]

Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down.
-Oscar Romero

 

[altya]

God gives everything in abundance – this earth and all its beauty, the luxury of flowers, trees and shrubs.

Why live in anticipation of the hereafter? Our heaven is now, is here – it is for this that God’s Son died for us. Lets walk in the fullness of the word of God and experience life in abundance.

 

[-ScarletThread-]

I get all my quotes from music lyrics. Here's a few fav's of mine.

"When you love me there's nothing i wouldnt try. I mite even fly."

"I'll take every moment, and every minute that you'll give to me."

"No time to grab the camera, no time to write it down. Just time enough to breathe it in and linger."

"...ever my song will be, Jesus you are beautiful to me"
- all by Sara Grove's.

 

[tulc]

The Shepherds

Awake were they only,
those shepherds so lonely,
on guard in that silence profound:
When color had faded,
when nighttime had shaded
their senses from sight and from sound,
Lo, then broke a wonder,
then drifted asunder
the veils from the splendor of God,
When light from the Holy
came down to the lowly,
and heaven to the earth that they trod.

May light now enfold us,
O Lord, for behold us,
like shepherds, from tumult withdrawn,
Nor hearing, nor seeing,
all other cares fleeing,
we wait the ineffable dawn.
O Spirit all-knowing,
Thou source overflowing,
O move in the darkness around,
that sight may be in us,
true hearing to win us
Glad tidings where Christ may be found.
-(an Old Welsh carol)

 

[tulc]

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
-James Madison

(thank you lunachick! I stole this from her sig!)