May Quotes - Page 170

My work may feature brown faces but it could be anybody's story.

Some may belittle politics, but we know - who are engaged in it - that it is where people stand tall. And, although I know it has its many harsh contentions, it is still the arena that sets the heart beating a little faster. And if it is, on occasions, the place of low skulduggery, it is more often the place for the pursuit of noble causes.

The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence that generalized skills are in any way superior to specialized brilliance.

There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. It's always preferable to be in trouble with others. In fact, it may be essential.

I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information. Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.

Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.

However weighed down and entangled in earthly fetters you may be, it can never be too late.

Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God

If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be looking to Jesus as a teacher, model, and helper, but ironically you are avoiding him as Savior. You are trusting in your own goodness rather than in Jesus for your standing with God.

May we realize how close to us He is willing to come, how far He is willing to go to help us and how much He loves us.

Though we may not necessarily forfeit our lives in service to our God, we can certainly demonstrate our love for Him by how well we serve Him.

May we show increased kindness toward one another, and may we ever be found doing the work of the Lord.

Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.

To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.

The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence. And Zen. suggests that we may be driving toward one or the other on a cosmic scale. Driving toward them because, one way or the other, as madmen or innocents, we are already there. It might be good to open our eyes and see.

No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.

Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence.

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

Friends may come and go, but barbecues accumulate.

I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may.

I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

Scatter money in a crowd, how they scramble for it; offer bread to the starving, how greedily they seize it; throw a rope to the drowning, how he eagerly grasps it! With like eagerness and earnestness may the Spirit of God help you to lay hold on Christ.