Quotes that stir the soul
My daughter told me that she had some good serious quotes as opposed to the funny quotes article that I posted yesterday, so this is for you Rosey Nosey.
Take a moment to think of/research any great serious & or stirring quotes that you have come across in your travels. Let me start the ball rolling with this absolute ripper from Tony Campolo. Once, when making a speech back in the 80’s he famously began by saying ”First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don’t give a shit. What’s worse is that you’re more upset with the fact that I said shit than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night” Not bad for an American Evangelist.
MM
June 29th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
“The easiest thing in the world is to be you. The most difficult thing is to be what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that posistion.”
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” Martin Luther-King
“I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.” Martin Luther-King
June 30th, 2007 at 8:22 am
Wisdom, excellence & learning all end at a point which you define
Mick McIvor
2007
July 2nd, 2007 at 6:30 pm
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get others interested in you”
“The mind is a terrible thing to waste”
“Choose your battles”
July 4th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Charm will get you 20 minutes; after that, you need to have something to say,
Carol Bennett
July 12th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Every dewdrop and raindrop had a whole heaven within it.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
She sounds the way bananas taste.
Truman Capote
What art offers is space - a cetain breathing room for the soul.
John Updike
You use a glass mirror to look at your face: you use works of art to look at your soul.
George Bernard Shaw
Irrelevance is irreverence.
Core value for NCC church
There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.
Francois Fenelon, French Archbishop
I did my best it wasn’t much.
I couldn’t feel so I learned to touch.
I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
And even though it all went wrong,
I’ll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah.
Leonard Cohen
July 16th, 2007 at 11:44 am
When I give bread to the poor, they call me a saint; when I ask why th epoor have no bread, they call me a communist
Bishop Dom Helder Camara