Red Quotes - Page 13

We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.

My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.

Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.

I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

If you worry about who is going to get credit, you don't get much work done.

The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.

Everyone you idolize wakes up scared to be themselves sometimes.

Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.

Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.

I never get tired of the blue sky.

There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place.

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it is also to be found in the Decretum Gratiani: The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry: the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless.

My bed isn't made, I'm tired, I haven't slept well for two weeks. I haven't been laid in a month. I don't have a girlfriend. I have a warrant for my arrest.

Gold is money. Everything else is credit.

Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.

Say unto thine own heart, 'I am mine own redeemer.

Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid.

Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!