Inspirational Quotes
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Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass,
C.S. Lewis (Clive Staples; 1898 Belfast - 1963 Oxford):
G.K. Chesterton (Gilbert Keith; 1874-1936 UK):
And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good - Gen 1:31
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662 France):
It was never about winning or losing - Pirates of the Carribbean
Charles Williams (Walter Standby; 1886 London - 1945 Oxford):
Beauty killed the beast - King Kong
J.R.R Tolkien (John Ronald Reuel; 1892 Bloemfontein s-A. - 1973 Bournemouth UK):
Age is an issue of mind over matter; if you don't mind then it doesn't matter - Mark Twain
"Everything of importance has already been quoted" - Anonymous
For every complex human problem there's a neat & simple solution; which is wrong - HL Mencken
God is like a comedian playing for an audience too afraid to laugh - HL Mencken
it's about learning to dance in the rain - Victoria Green
Always forgive your enemies, nothing irritates them so much - Oscar Wilde
Reality is just an illusion, though a very persistent one - Albert Einstein
* I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.
* There are two kinds of people: those that say to God thy will be done and those to whom God says well then have it your own way.
* Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
* At the end of things, the blessed will say: We have never lived anywhere except in heaven. And the lost will say: We were always in hell. And both will speak truly.
* If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
* Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
* We’re not doubting that God will do the best for us; we’re wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
× One can't really be a catholic and grown up.
× Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
× Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
× I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
× If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
× If it's not true that a divine being fell then we can only say that an animal went entirely off its head.
× Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, insanely happy, and in constant trouble.
× Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
× An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. (And vice versa)
× If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
× If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?
× When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
× It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
Until you've lost your reputation you never knew what a burden it was - M Michell
•Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
•Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
•Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
•The universe clearly shows a God who hides himself. (in effect)
•When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.
•To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
•Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
•What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words by God himself.
The concept of the Trinity is so absurd, it must be true.
The objective is an abstraction of the subjective; not the other way around.
+ The glory of God is in facts.
+ The greatest attacks on the Gospel are found within the Gospel itself.
+ Christianity, like all religions, is mostly almost uninterrupted boredom, in which the commandment to always rejoice is the hardest of all.
+ This also art Thou; neither art Thou this. As a motto for life it is indispensable, and it⎯ or its inversion⎯ well summarises the history of the Church.
+ Most people are, effectively, dualists.
+ Nothing was certain but everything was safe⎯ that was part of the mystery of Love.
+ But possibly only in such complete despair he finds that which cannot despair and is something other than man.
+ The Holy Spirit would bring a later era to the understanding that faith can rejoice in the undermining of rational support while at the same time it profits from rational support.
+ And can terrifying things be good at the same time? She asked supposedly in passing. Certainly, he said more energetically, would our shivers then measure the Almighty?
+ How could man exist at all? By impossibility doing her own impossible work for man (like Jesus says: Without Me you can do nothing) realised by that divine substitution: "He in us and we in Him."
+ The conflict is always sharp. A strict view is essential for sanctity; a relaxed view is of vital importance for sanity ... Relaxation is no less holy and fitting than strictness, yet it's very difficult to preach that.
+ Man and God together can remember everything in joy; man without God...
+ Nothing of all this was essential; only of importance were belief, prayer, love.
+ Rejection was to be rejection but not denial, as reception was to be reception but not subservience.
+ Perfection is not something that we give to God but something that we receive from Him.
+ The ones with purer consciences would have to make the best of the bad product that humanity undoubtedly was.
+ The discussion on faith and works was often seen as a technical detail of theology; while it actually is an issue of daily life⎯ like most theology.
+ Crucifixion&Ressurection: Freedom then existed because it had to; necessity because it could.
+ Sanctity has, even if it is just a fashion, a dynamic that shakes every fashion to its foundations.
+ Wouldn't we consider other people's convictions as a sort of compensation for ours? In Montaigne the appreciation of unbelief had become an noble minimum of faith.
+ It doesn't surprise me that christianity is sometimes considered as the most obscene idolatry when one considers that an instrument of the most cursed and humiliating horror was lifted up, illuminated and in a revolting way adored, even with enthousiast confirmation of the great intellects.
+ 'But let your word be yes, yes and no, no,' said Messiah (Mat 5); perhaps he meant (more than we would think) that it was both at the same time.
+ The scandal of the church had to be a scandal of the True Church, or it lost half its lurid glory.
+ The history of Christianity is full of remarkable fulfillments of Christ's promise to return the full measure of what is given.
+ Going to church is a means, one of the means. But perhaps the best for most, and for some almost the only one. I do not say that it matters greatly, but the means cannot both be and not be. If you do not use it, it is a pity to bother about it; if you do, it is a pity not to use it.
In theory there's no difference between theory and practice but in practice there is.
It's not an obvious thing to state the obvious now and then.
°A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
°Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
°I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
°I wish it need not have happened in my time, said Frodo. So do I, said Gandalf, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
°If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
°The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
°Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
"Laugh and rejoice for it could be worse." So I laughed and rejoiced and it got worse! - unknown
[and no, it does NOT say the laughing MADE it worse;-)]
If all else fails immortality can still be achieved by spectacular failure - JK Galbraith
El dolor es algo temporal, la gloria es para siempre.
Stupidity has something heroic as well.
A man's got to do what a man's got to do - John Wayne
Life often is like a horsehoe seen from its side: in going forward you seem to be retracing your steps...
Shit happens - Anybody
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important - The little Prince
Perfectly balanced, as all things should be - Thanos
God only gives what you don't need anymore.
I love it when a plan comes together - Hannibal
For love there are no rules.
Hic Sunt Dracones (Here Be Dragons)!
There IS no solution; so instead of a problem we just have a shitty situation to cope with in any way you can...
The only real guarantee for succes is trying to fail /
expect to be disappointed and you'll never be disappointed again!
History is like a see-saw: always going forward, never getting any further. And so the only actual progress is time.
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