Quotes
Quotes for today
Saturday, May 26th, 2007
These quotes were previously posted on this blog on March 4, 2004.
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that […]
Quote for Today
Saturday, October 28th, 2006From the page 5 of the October 11, 2006 edition of the TCC COnnection (PDF download):
What do you consider the most challenging moral issue facing the country? - “Christians not practicing the simplest of values taught in Sunday school, such as walking in love and foregiveness, not judging others, and treating others the way you […]
Quotes on Love
Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “He who is in love is wise and becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “Love, love, love: That is the soul of genius.”
Krishnamurti: “The problem, if you love it, is […]
Quote about the appearance of things
Sunday, September 10th, 2006Seen recently in an email signature tag line…
Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor’s son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief, and spoke like a thief. But the man found his ax while digging in the valley, and the next time he saw his neighbor’s […]
Quote of the Day
Friday, November 21st, 2003I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Quote of the Day
Wednesday, November 19th, 2003It’s a helluva thing to kill a man…you take away all he’s got and all he’s ever gonna have.”
- Clinton Eastwood in the movie Unforgiven
That quote expresses why I find the idea of killing (in any circumstance, even war and the death penalty) to be such an awful thing. The finality of it seems […]
Quote of the Day
Friday, October 24th, 2003Do the best you can wherever you are, and be kind.- Scott & Helen Nearing, pioneers of the modern homesteading movement and author of the book The Good Life
Quote of the Day
Wednesday, October 1st, 2003We are all pink on the inside. Why can’t we remember to look inside, where our hearts extend blood and oxygen to our brains…
- From http://www.zenlala.com/
Quote of the Day
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2003My personal vocation is to be a pilgrim of peace. … I would prefer a thousand times more to be killed that to kill anyone. This personal position is founded on the Gospel. … We need only turn to the Beatitudes to see that the option for Christians is clear. We, as Christians, are on […]