Quotes

[phkrause]

“It is easy to criticize and find fault with the conduct of kings, and write furious articles against them in newspapers, or make violent speeches about them on platforms. Any fool can rip and rend a costly garment, but not every man can cut out and make one. To expect perfection in kings, prime ministers, or rulers of any king, is senseless and unreasonable. We would exhibit more wisdom if we prayed for them more, and criticized less.”

- J.C. Ryle

[phkrause]

“Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.”

- Albert Schweitzer

[phkrause]

“I see something of God each hour of the Twenty-four, and each moment then, In the faces of men and women I see God, and in My own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropt in the street and every One is signed by God's name. ”

- Walt Whitman

[phkrause]

“If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.”

- Mark 8:34-35 (Revised Standard Version)

[phkrause]

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

- Theodore Roosevelt

[phkrause]

“God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, "I love you." ”

- Billy Graham

[phkrause]

“The question for the child is not "Do I want to be good?" but "Whom do I want to be like?"”

- Bruno Bettelheim

[phkrause]

“Faith is not a cushion for me to fall back upon; it is my working energy.”

- Helen Keller

[phkrause]

“As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace, he will be in the furnace with them.”

- C.H. Spurgeon

[phkrause]

“Pray with the mind in the heart.”

- St. Theophan the Recluse

[phkrause]

“Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it and consciously make use of it. He will heal himself, make himself happy and prosperous, and life in an entirely different world. For he will have discovered that life is from within and not from without.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[olger]

wow, peter.

New-age monism in embryo.

Ralph didn't get that from the Bible.

[phkrause]

Who said he did??

[phkrause]

“Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these. ”

- Horace Bushnell

[phkrause]

"All things good come to those for whom the Good is all things."

– Guy Finley

[phkrause]

"To know that every moment — regardless of how it comes wrapped — is a gift greater than you can give yourself, is to be well on your way to a life without fear."

–Guy Finley

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"Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future."

–Guy Finley

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"The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities."

–Guy Finley

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"No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time — in fact, the only time — to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started!"

–Guy Finley

[phkrause]

"The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared."

–Guy Finley

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"The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become."

–Guy Finley

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"An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat."

–Guy Finley

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"The Peace you long for also longs for you."

–Guy Finley

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"There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself."

–Guy Finley

[phkrause]

"Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Reality itself will see to it that you rise."

–Guy Finley