quotes on jesus
Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses, as certainly wrong, but so venial as scarcely to deserve censure. ~W.E.H. Lecky
No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. ~Robert Adams, Darkroom & Creative Camera Techniques, May 1995
God enters by a private door into each individual. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. ~Michel de Montaigne
No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. ~Robert Adams, Darkroom & Creative Camera Techniques, May 1995
It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious. ~Kin Hubbard
Turn your wounds into wisdom. ~Oprah Winfrey
Traverse: One of two ways to stop while skiing. Tree: The other method. ~Author Unknown
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. ~Colette
I dropped a tear in the ocean. The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you. ~Author Unknown
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Dogen
She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes. ~Frank Deford
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. ~Christopher Morley
All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality. ~Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain
Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous. ~John Jay Chapman
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. ~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry." ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 24, spoken by the character Mr. Antolini
The truth needs so little rehearsal. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul. ~Logan P. Smith
There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind." ~W. MacNeile Dixon
