cool quotes

[dsdumpling]

There is a place of full release, near to the heart of God, a place where all is joy and peace, near to the heart of God. Cleland B. McAfee

 

[tulc]

Fool, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity. He is omnific, omniform, omnipercipient, omniscient, omnipotent. He it was who invented letters, printing, the railroad, the steamboat, the telegraph, the platitude, and the circle of the sciences. He created patriotism and taught nations war--founded theology, philosophy, law, medicine, and Chicago. He established monarchical and republican government. He is from everlasting to everlasting--such as creation's dawn beheld he fooleth now. In the morning of time he sang upon primitive hills, and in the noonday of existance headed the procession of being. His grandmotherly hand has warmly tucked-in the set sun of civilization, and in the twilight he prepares Man's evening meal of milk-and-morality and turns down the covers of the universal grave. And after the rest of us shall have retired for the night of eternal oblivion he will sit up to write a history of human civilization.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

 

[Bulldog]

"It is better to be not rewarded and deserve it than to be rewarded and not deserve it." -Marcell Ledbetter

 

[Chadwickboy]

Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words.

Ok, so they're not quotes per se, but yeah.... lol

 

[tulc]

SHAVING IN THE DARK

How old is the sun today

Where are the shoes of yesteryear

What an evil potato goes through
we can never know, but
I'm beginning to resemble one

Ah, a little light now

It is the hour
the moment
when it becomes possible
to distinguish a white
thread from a black,
so prayer begins

I see a shadowy reflection now our fingers touch

There's nothing like what is

fragile and momentary
as the pale yellow light along the windowsill
in winter north
of nowhere yet
if it were not for winter nothing
would get done

would finally get done

I've been all around this world

and not to die in hell
not to die in the flames of hell homeless with a cell phone please

There's nothing like today

And contributing one's atoms to the green universe
how strange is that

And some have managed to live in constant awareness
that all things, every evil thing
will be forgotten, dispensing
to mourn for every radiant thing, and so seeing
the radiance.
-Franz Wright

 

[altya]

If we would be truthful with ourselves, we would all feel the burden of conviction when it comes to recognizing and revering the Sovereignty, Holiness, and Righteousness of our Creator.

 

[altya]

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must
hammer and forge yourself one." James A. Froude

 

[tulc]

If you never commit yourself,
you never express yourself,
and yourself becomes less and less significant and decisive.
Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
-Anton Chekhov

 

[chaelsworld0o]

"I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion, then it will start a chain reaction of the same."-- Rachel Scott, Columbine Victim

 

[tulc]

la ilaha il Allah, the first part of the shahada, the declaration of faith. It's difficult to translate, but roughly it's "there is nothing worthy of worship but God." It's usually translated as "there is no God but God," but ilaha is more then just God, it is the center of a person's life. Especially in today's world, we are not just in danger of worshipping other gods, we are also in danger of putting money, our jobs, a car at the center of our life ahead of God
-rahma's friend (thanks rahma )

 

[tulc]

It is quite easy to found a community. There are always plenty of courageous
people who want to be heroes, are ready to sleep on the floor, to work hard
hours each day, to live in dilapidated houses. It's not hard to camp-anyone
can rough it for a time. The problem comes in living with brothers and
sisters whom we have not chosen but who have been given to us, and in
working ever more truthfully towards the goal. A community is only being
created when its members accept that they are not going to achieve great
things, that they are not going to be heroes, but simply live each day with
new hope, like children, in wonderment as the sun rises and in thankfulness
as it sets. Community is only being created when they have recognized that
the greatness of humanity lies in the acceptance of our insignificance, our
human condition, and to thank God for having put in a finite body the seeds
of eternity which are visible in small and daily gestures of love and
forgiveness.
-Jean Vanier

 

[tulc]

[font=Georgia,Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]I cannot help wondering whether in these days when so large a proportion of humanity is submerged in materialism, God does not want there to be some men and women who have given themselves to him and to Christ and who yet remain outside the Church. What frightens me is the Church as a social structure. And not only on account of its blemishes. Insofar as the Church is merely a social structure, it belongs to the Prince of this World... I do not want to be adopted into another circle, another human milieu. I want nothing else but obedience - even unto the cross. That is the true haven, as you know: the cross.[/font]
[font=Georgia,Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]-Simone Weil
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[Wakita3]

You know you've achieved perfection in design not when you have nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away." -Antoine de Saint Exupery "

 

[tulc]

[move][shadow=red]Welcome to CF Wakita3!![/shadow][/move]


-tulc(and you may quote me!)

 

[dsdumpling]

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. Nelson Mandela

 

[tulc]

The early Christians abhorred and attacked this mixture of the religious and the patriotic. They detested any State religion that forced back God’s rule; they loathed all religiosity influenced by the politics of the moment, and fought against any veneration of the existing power structure. This included any political system with a religious emphasis. These were to be regarded as the inheritance of Babylon, the works of sin and demonism. They were nothing short of the devil’s state and the service of Satan. It was therefore inevitable that in return the state would accuse these people of high treason, of being the enemies of civilization.
-Eberhard Arnold

 

[goodgirl123]

Faith...is believing in something the eyes refuse to see....j.r.r. tolkein

 

[melodias]

aaacckkk....i can't get this to work!

 

[melodias]

ok....so now it works
[pong][/pong]

 

[tulc]

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet
to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.