Son Quotes - Page 9

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

No one has more trouble than the person who claims to have no trouble

Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.

When Jesus Christ came upon the Earth, you killed Him. The son of your own God. And only after He was dead did you worship Him and start killing those who would not.

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.

Yea, let them which have been redeemed of the Lord, shew how He hath delivered them from the hand of the oppressor. When they wandered in the desert wilderness out of the way, and found no city to dwell in, both hungry and thirsty, their soul was overwhelmed in them. Let them confess before the Lord His loving kindness and His wonderful works before the sons of men.

The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.

Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free.

Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Willie Nelson's the one who told me the reason it costs so much to get divorced is because it's worth it.

The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink - and in drinking understand themselves.

you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry

Sing songs that none have sung, think thoughts that ne'er in the brain have rung, Walk in paths that none have trod, weep tears as none have shed for God, Give peace to all to whom none other gave, Claim him your own who's everywhere disclaimed. Love all with love that none have felt and Brave the battle of life with strength unchained.

Remember, thou canst be brought into no condition, be it ever so severe, where Love has not been before thee and where its tender lesson is not awaiting thee. Therefore despair not nor murmur, for that which seeketh to save, to heal, and to deliver, will guide thee, if thou seekest this guidance.

The curse of God must have been on our people when we chose him out of so many noble sons of the South, who would have carried us safely through this Revolution.

We can mention only one point (which experience confirms), namely, that next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. No greater commendation than this can be found — at least not by us. After all, the gift of language combined with the gift of song was only given to man to let him know that he should praise God with both word and music, namely, by proclaiming [the Word of God] through music.

Never back down from a real challenge. They give the best lessons in life.

I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on me.

Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.

I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.

I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, 'Oh, it's so unrealistic, no one just breaks into song in the middle of their day.' Yeah, they do- if they're me.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

To take part in the African revolution, it is not enough to write a revolutionary song. You must fashion the revolution with the people. And if you fashion it with the people, the songs will come by themselves.