Relevant quotations

[Bhaktavasya]

 

Here are some quotes that I find relevant to the world-changing situation;

 

"There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:

The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid." The Bible, Proverbs 18-19

 

"God moves in a mysterious way

His wonders to perform;

He plants his footsteps in the sea

And rides upon the storm"

William Cowper, 'Light Shining out of Darkness'

 

"A man that hath friends must show himself friendly." Holy Bible 18:24

 

"The insight of a true friend is more useful than the goodwill of others: therefore gain friends by choice, not by chance."

Baltasar Gracian 'The Art of Worldly Wisdom'

 

"Pure Friendship is an image ofthe original and perfect friendship that belong to the Trinity and is the very essence of God."

Simone Weil, 'Waiting for God'

 

"Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest and some by souls." Jeremy Taylor

 

"He that have mercy on the poor, happy is he." The Bible Psalms 103:17

 

"When we live at each other's mercy, we had better learn to be merciful."

William Sloane Coffin, 'Living the Truth in a World of Illusions'

 

"Swift is the Lord in retirbution, yet He is forgiving and merciful.' Koran 6:165

 

In the beginning God wished to render justice, but when He observed that the world could not rest on justice alone, He rendered mercy." Talmud, Rosh Hashanah 17

 

"One cannot build his house on rock after the storm breaks, that must be done before."

Harry Emerson Fosdick, 'Riverside Sermons'

 

"The church seeks its own life, and therefore while it is against war, speaking piously about 'the Prince of Peace', it always justifies any present war."

George A. Buttrick, 'God, Pain and Evil'

 

"King David was not allowed to build the Temple in Jerusalem because he had been a man of war; the privilege of constructing the Temple was reserved for his son Solomom, whose very name is derived from shalom (peace)."

Roland B. Gittelsohn, 'The Meaning of Judaism'

 

"We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime fo slaughtering whole peoples?" Seneca, Epistles

 

"Stretch a bow to the very full,

And you will wish you had stopped in time."

Lao-tzu, Tao te-ching

 

"We walk by faith, not by sight."

The Bible, 2 Corinthians 5.7

 

"Faith is a living, well-founded confidence in the Grace of God, so perfectly certain that it would die a thousand times rather than surrender its conviction."

Martin Luther, Preface to St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans

 

"Faith is a kind of climbing instinct, which draws us upward and onward."

willism Ralph Inge, 'Wit and Wisdom of Dean Inge'

 

"Faith is related not to self-assurance but to God; not to an event, but to truth."

Fulton J. Sheen 'On Being Human'

 

"I have a dream today. I have a dram that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be laid low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places shall be made straight. And the glory of God shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together."

Marin Luther King

 

more later

 

 

 

[dasanudas]

Nice little treasure trove of quotations BV the real work is in practicing them.

May we all find the strength to practice what all the great souls are imploring. I need to be constantly reminded from the guidance of the higher loving agents lest I listen to this conflicting mind.

Hare Krsna

 

[Bhaktavasya]

 

"Genuine dissent must always keep a human measure. It must be free and spontaneous. The slighter gestures are often more significant, because they are unpremeditated and they cannot be doctored beforehand by the propagandist."

Thomas Merton, 'Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander'

 

"Man proposes, but God disposes."

Thomas a' Kempis, 'The Imitation of Christ'

 

"Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subltly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God."

Thomas Merton 'The New Man'

 

 

"Great men are not always wise."

The Bible, Job 32.9

 

"The superior person is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean person walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences."

Confucius

 

"He that is greedy of gain troubleth his won house."

The Bible, Proverbs 15.27

 

"I want to kow how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon. I want to know His thoughts. The rest are details."

Albert Einstein

 

"Justice will not condemn even the Devil himself wrongly."

Thomas fuller 'Gnomologia'

 

"The disinherited of every age have dreamt of a just society."

Reinhold Niebuhr 'Moral Man and Immoral Society'

 

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

Martin Luther King, Jr., 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail.'

 

"It is tempting at one level to believe that bad things happen to people (especially other people) because God is a righteous judge who gives them exactly wht they deserve. By believing that we keep the world orderly and understandable...But this belief has a number of serious limitations. It teaches people to blame themselves. It creates guilt when there is no basis for guilt. It makes people hate God, even as it makes them hate themselves. And most disturbing of all, it does not even fit the facts."

Harold S.Kushner, 'When Bad Things Happen to Good People'

 

"God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience."

Rabindranath Tagore, 'Fireflies'

 

"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do dsperate things."

Henry David Thoreau, 'Walden'

 

"Let not a wise man glory n his wisdom."

The Bible, Jeremiah 9.23

 

"Wisdom makes but a slow defense against trouble, though at last a sure one."

Oliver Goldsmith, 'The Vicar of Wakefield'

 

"No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together."

Mohandas K. Gandhi

 

"If your religion doesn't change you (for the better)then you should change your religion."

Elbert Hubbard 'The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams'

 

"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."

Mohandas K. Gandhi, 'Non-Violence in Peace and War'

 

"God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done."

Harry Emerson Fosdick 'The Meaning of Prayer'

 

"To wish to pray is a prayer in itself."

Geroges Bernanos 'The Diary of a Country Priest'

 

 

[talasiga]

Originally posted by Bhaktavasya:

"Let not a wise man glory n his wisdom."

The Bible, Jeremiah 9.23

Let not a humble man glory in his humility.

 

[talasiga]

Originally posted by Bhaktavasya:

 

"King David was not allowed to build the Temple in Jerusalem because he had been a man of war; the privilege of constructing the Temple was reserved for his son Solomom, whose very name is derived from shalom (peace)."

Roland B. Gittelsohn, 'The Meaning of Judaism'

 

 

With its war torn history

Perhaps it would have been better

If David had built it.

 

[talasiga]

Originally posted by Bhaktavasya:

"Justice will not condemn even the Devil himself wrongly."

Thomas fuller 'Gnomologia'

The Devil could never be trialled

for want of an unbiased jury

 

 

[Maitreya]

Originally posted by talasiga:

The Devil could never be trialled

for want of an unbiased jury

 

 

Not in this age.

They would rather try the sage.

 

The Devil "Innocent"

The proclamation.

As the jury revels

In nullification.

 

 

[talasiga]

Originally posted by talasiga:

The Devil could never be trialled

for want of an unbiased jury

 

 

Hey Maitreya !

I thought you'd like that one -

has a double negative

(which doesn't negate the meaning?)

I think ......

 

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AnimeshhhhHHHH !