"Simple like an uncarved block."
Tao te Ching


"Like an acorn that holds the promise of a thousand forests."
Showing posts with label thoughtful words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thoughtful words. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

GRACE NOTES

I love this picture, it came from some internet site. Wish I could give better credit to the photographer.
Thumbing through my book of quotes I see many themes but today I think I will just throw out random thoughts that have struck my fancy over the years.
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"Where there is no vision, the people perish."
Proverbs 29:18
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"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods."
Einstein
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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If you only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
Emmett Fox
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Life can only be understood backwards, but, it must be lived forward!
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Silence is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation.
Father Thomas Keating.
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Feminism
In 1913 Rebecca West wrote sardonically, I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."
From Backlash: Susan Faludi
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Dear God Let me seek the truth, but spare me the company of those who have found it.
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As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen
The Book of Prayer