Wisdom Quotes - Page 170

We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.

Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.

One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.

When life gets you down, just remember these three words of wisdom. "Bonk!", "Zap!", and "Yowsers!"

We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.

The people of America are a people of property; almost every man is a freeholder.

For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.

It is by the Holy Spirit that we love those who are united to us in Christ. The more plentifully we have received of the Spirit of Christ, the more perfectly we are able to love them: and the more we love them the more we receive the Spirit. It is clear, however, that since we love them by the Spirit Who is given to us by Jesus, it is Jesus Himself Who loves them in us.

I seek to speak to you, in some way, as your own self. Who can tell what this may meanI myself do not know, but if you listen, things will be said that are perhaps not written in this book. And this will be due not to me but to the One who lives and speaks in both.

Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage.

There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation with realities outside and above us.

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.

In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and seek Him and who strive to bring their own freedom under obedience to His divine purpose. All that is done by the will of God in secret is done for His glory and for the good of those whom He has chosen to share in His glory.

For now, oh my God, it is to You alone that I can talk, because nobody else will understand. I cannot bring any other man on this earth into the cloud where I dwell in Your light, that is, Your darkness, where I am lost and abashed. I cannot explain to any other man the anguish which is Your joy nor the loss which is the Possession of You, nor the distance from all things which is the arrival in You, nor the death which is the birth in You because I do not know anything about it myself and all I know is that I wish it were over - I wish it were begun.

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

A community of small farmers... land property owners, will be the only assurance that the freedom our republic offers will be guaranteed to each and every citizen.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half, for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion.