Quotes

[tulc]

"Political tags-such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist,
fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth-are never basic criteria.
The human race divides politically into those who want people to be
controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists
acting from the highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest
number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in
altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort."
-Robert A. Heinlein

 

[tulc]

"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression: for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach unto himself."
-Thomas Paine

 

[tulc]

"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds,
and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy
them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every
human being, and who is willing to destroy his own heart?"
-Alexander Solzhenitsyn

 

[tulc]

"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds,
and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy
them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every
human being, and who is willing to destroy his own heart?"
-Alexander Solzhenitsyn

 

[tulc]

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
-Anais Nin

 

[Protinus]

"We will speak in the Roman manner...I talk, you listen"

Cardinal Edward Egan
Archdiocese of New York

 

[Lion-Of-Zion]

"A little light in the darkness goes a long way."
Matisyahu

 

[Protinus]

"[The] wound is still more profound [in Protestant denominations]. Despite the fact that this teaching has created no less distress...it is neverless difficult to see how the title of 'Church' could be possibly attributed to them"

-The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, doing its bit for ecumenism by declaring all non-Catholic faiths to be deficient.

 

[LovebirdsFlying]

The second half of your life will make up for the first.

Hubby-to-be Mike's vow to me.

(eliminates a double post, and shares an awww moment.)

 

[LovebirdsFlying]

A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Muhammad Ali

 

[Kaonashi]

"People who think of God as a warrior may become warriors themselves, whether in a Christian crusade, a Muslim jihad, or an apocalyptically oriented militia. People who think of God as righteous are likely to emphasize righteousness themselves, just as those who think of God as compassionate are likely to emphasize compassion. People who think God is angry at the world are likely to be angry at the world themselves." Marcus Borg, The God We Never Knew

 

[Kaonashi]

"When Christianity came to be interpreted by the straightforward, dull, unspiritual legal mind of Rome, the Gospel went into a fearful eclipse. When the Greek thought of Christ gave way to the Latin, a night came upon the Christian world that has extended to the present day. Then were born all those half-views, distorted views, and false views of Christian doctrine and Christian life that have perverted the Gospel, puzzled the human intellect and grieved the human heart through all the long centuries from that day to this" -Rev. S. Crane, The Universalist Quarterly, January 1878

 

[JulySheMustFly]

"Nature is a sister, and even a younger sister: a little, dancing sister, to be laughed at as well as loved." - Chesterton

 

[tulc]

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had a world where everybody said, 'We don't
know?' The fact is that you're surrounded by God and you don't see God,
because you KNOW ABOUT God. The final barrier to the vision of God is your
God concept. You miss God because you think you know. The highest knowledge
of God is to know God as unknowable. All revelations, however divine, are
never any more than a finger pointing at the moon. As we say in the East,
'When the sage points to the moon,
all the idiot sees is the finger'.
-Anthony De Mello

 

[tulc]

It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the
scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would
have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a
sacred duty.
-Mohandas K. Gandhi

 

[tulc]

I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad
enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will
fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest
Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon.
-Susan B. Anthony (on the Women's Suffrage platform)

 

[tulc]

"O you who believe! Fear Allah as He should be feared
and die not except in a state of Islam with complete
submission to Allah. And hold fast, all of you together,
to the rope of Allah (i.e. Qur'an), and be not divided
among yourselves; and remember with gratitude Allah's
favors on you; for you were enemies and He joined your
hearts in love, so that by His Grace you became brothers;
and you were on the brink of the pit of fire, and He
saved you from it. Thus Allah make His signs clear to
you that you may be guided."
-Al-Qur'an 3 : 102-103

 

[tulc]

When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.
-Abraham Joshua Heschel

 

[tulc]

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness
I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it
now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
-William Penn

 

[tulc]

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that
we repent of, but our severity.
-George Eliot