All the water in the world, However hard it tried, Could never, never sink a ship, Unless it got inside. And all the evil in the world, The blackest kind of sin. Can never hurt you one least bit — Unless you let it in! Anonymous
Anonymous Saying – “If ever two were one, then surly we…”
If ever two were one, then surly we. As ever man is loved by God, then truly me. Anonymous
Anonymous Saying – “Walk in My presence and you will be perfect.”
Walk in My presence and you will be perfect. Anonymous
Anonymous Saying – “It is an extraordinary fact and an extraordinary piece of evidence for the truth of religion…”
It is an extraordinary fact and an extraordinary piece of evidence for the truth of religion, that a person’s long hours spent in silent communication with God, who never directly answers, is nevertheless manifestly a two-way communication. Such a person is gradually and permanently altered in the depths of his personality in ways which would be inconceivable if there was […]
Anonymous Saying – “My life is but a weaving between my Lord and me…”
The Weaver’s Prayer My life is but a weaving between my Lord and me I cannot see the colors He worketh steadily. Oft times He weaveth sorrow and I in foolish pride Forget He sees the upper and I the underside. Not till the looms are silent and the shuttles cease to fly Shall God unroll the canvas and explain […]
Native American Quote – “Treat the Earth well, it was not given to you by your parents…”
Treat the Earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. Native American Tradition
Anchorite Prayer – “Sublime me, Master Alchemist, Again, again And yet again In the cracked…”
Sublime me, Master Alchemist, Again, again And yet again In the cracked And sooty retort Of my own unwilling Skin. In your cruel, Impartial fires Bone and brain All vain desires, Vanity and inward blight Refine. Reform me Free of what obscures your Light. Transparent Make this vessel be So to embrace, Transmit and focus Your life-searing energy That so […]
Henri Amiel Quote – “What comfort, what strength, what economy there is in order…”
What comfort, what strength, what economy there is in order — material order, intellectual order, moral order. To know where one is going and what one wishes — this is order; to keep one’s word and one’s engagements — again order; to have everything ready under one’s hand to be able to dispose of all one’s forces, and to have […]
Henri Amiel Quote – “When we are doing nothing in particular, it is then we are living through all our being…”
When we are doing nothing in particular, it is then we are living through all our being… Will is suspended, but nature and time are always active, and if our life is no longer our work, the work goes on nonetheless. With us, without us, or in spite of us, our existence travels through its appointed phases. Henri Amiel (1821 […]
Saint Ambrose Quote – “Better is he that restrains his anger…”
Better is he that restrains his anger, as Solomon says, “than he that takes a city,” for anger leads astray even brave men. Saint Ambrose (337 – 397)