Quotations and sayings . . .
Deus est in omnibus rebus, et intime : God is in all things, and intimately so.
Thomas Aquinas
Life is short and we have not much time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us. Oh, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind.
Henri Amiel
In the last analysis, I have always believed, it is not so much their subjects that the great teachers teach as it is themselves.
Frederick Buechner, Now & Then: A Memoir of Vocation
The huge modern heresy is to alter the human soul to fit modern social conditions, instead of altering modern social conditions to fit the human soul.
G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
Her conclusion was that any human being lies nearer to the unseen than any organization, and from this she never varied.
E.M. Forster, Howards End
Sizzen is niet, maar dwaen is n ding. Saying is nothing; doing is something.
Friesian proverb
My life is my message.
Mahatma Gandhi
Jesus, who in this Vision informed me of all that is needful to me, answered by this word and said: "It behoved that there should be sin; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well."
Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love, online at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Now let me say that the next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and good will toward men is the nonviolent affirmation of the sacredness of all human life. Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.
Martin Luther King, Jr., The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.
Martin Luther King, Jr., The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have discovered that a person being herself is beautiful; that contentment and acceptance and freedom are beautiful.
Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
For the saints, when they remember their sins, do not remember the sins, but the mercy of God, and therefore even past evil is turned by them into a present cause of joy and serves to glorify God.
Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain
. . . church is to be participated in and not consumed.
Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
One thing is becoming clear to me: God became flesh for us to show us that the way to come in touch with God's love is the human way, in which the limited and partial affection that people can give offers access to the unlimited and complete love that God has poured into the human heart.
Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Road to Daybreak
The mechanistic explanation of the universe is a meaningless ideal. . . . The prediction of all atomic positions in the universe would not answer any question of interest to anybody.
Michael Polanyi
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come. We have only today to love Jesus.
Mother Teresa
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead? . . . Truth had to have more nooks and crannies, more ins and outs than that.
John Updike, "On Not Being a Dove," Self-Consciousness
