Quotes To Live By
Quotes To Live By
The essentials of the Christian life are blessedly few.
Lorne Sanny
Never take counsel of your own fears.
Stonewall Jackson
When it comes time to die, make sure all you have to do is die.
Bob Boardman, prayer letter, 2002
He got all A's and flunked ordinary living.
Walker Percy, The Second Coming
The root of religion is the question what to do with the feeling for the mystery of living, what to do with awe, wonder, and amazement. Religion begins with a consciousness that something is asked of us.
Abraham Joshua Heschel, I Asked for Wonder
As a tree torn from the soil, as a river separated from its source, the human soul wanes when detached from what is greater than itself.
Abraham Joshua Heschel, I Asked for Wonder
There are three sayings extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Benjamin Franklin
Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.
Eugene O'Neill, The Great God Brown
Surely unhappy is he who knoweth all these, and knoweth not Thee: but happy whoso knoweth Thee, though he know not these. And whoso knoweth both Thee and them is not the happier for them, but for Thee only, if, knowing Thee, he glorifies Thee as God, and is thankful, and come not vain in his imagination.
Augustine, Confessions
Murph... had a quality of perfect sympathy. She also had a gift of interrogation, for getting everyone's life story--with the result that any number of people walked out of our house a little taller, as if they were about to become the subject of biographies. Naturally, they came back.
J. McInerney, Naked on the Grass, The New Yorker, January 18, 1999
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
The real danger to professing Christians lies not in the more glaring and grosser temptations and sins, but in a slow deterioration of vision, a slow death to daring, courage, and the willingness to adventure.
J. B. Philips
He who resolves never to ransack any mind, but his own will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all limitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself.
Sir Joshua Reynolds
You must translate every bit of your theology into the vernacular. This is very troublesome... but it is essential. It is also the greatest service to your own thought. I've come to the conclusion that if you cannot translate your own thoughts into uneducated language, then your thoughts are confused. Power to translate is the test of having really understood your own meaning.
C. S. Lewis, Intersect, July, 1995
Come to the edge.
We might fall.
Come to the edge.
It's too high!
COME TO THE EDGE!
So they came
and he pushed
And they flew.
Christopher Logue, quoted by Hume Cronin in Terrible Liar