Quotes

“I must find a truth that is truth for me… the idea for which I am willing to live or die.”

–Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

“I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance”

-e.e cummings

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” –C. S. Lewis

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make friends of them?” –Abraham Lincoln

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

–Martin Luther King, Jr.

“There’s always something left to love. Have you cried for that boy today? Not for yourself and the family because we lost the money. I mean for him. And what he’s gone through. And God help him. God help him, what it’s done to him.

“Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When he’s done good and made things easy for everybody? That ain’t the time at all. It’s when he’s at his lowest…and he can’t believe in himself because the world’s whipped him so! When you starts measuring somebody…measure him right, child. Measure him right. You make sure that you done taken into account…the hills and the valleys he’s come through…to get to wherever he is.”

–Act 3, A Raisin in the Sun

“Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.” –Robert Ingersoll

‎”To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.” –Brennan Manning

“Dance until they kill you, and then we’ll dance some more.”–Shane Claiborne

“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?”-Mahatma Gandhi

“What makes our lives so horrible is that our salvation never comes in the form we would have chosen.” – John L’Heureux

“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.” – Jose Saramago

‎”If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” – Mother Teresa

‎”For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.” -Ivan Panin

‎”Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” – James Baldwin

“If you are what you should be, then you will set the world on fire.” – St. Catherine of Siena

‎”I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.” – Edward Everett Hale

“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.” – Booker T. Washington

“I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.” Taylor Caldwell quotes

“In everyone there is the capacity to wake up, to understand, to love.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh, from Being Peace

“Not only is another world possible, she is one her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
- Arundhati Roy

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” Mahatma Gandhi quotes

“Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.” Albert Einstein

“While women weep, as they do now, I’ll fight; while children go hungry, as they do now, I’ll fight; while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do, I’ll fight; while there is one drunkard left, while there is a poor girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I’ll fight — I’ll fight to the very end!” - William Booth

“We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.”
- Hildegard of Bingen

“My vocation is love! In the heart of the Church, who is my Mother, I will be love. So I shall be everything and so my dreams will be fulfilled — to make Love loved.”
- Saint Therese of Lisieux

“I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness. I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too. I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right.” - Anne Frank

‎”Joy runs deeper than despair.” – Corrie Ten Boom

“Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.” – Mohandas Gandhi

“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.” — Saint Augustine

“How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.” – St. Thomas Aquinas

“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?” — Mark Twain

“Some want to live within the sound of church or chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell.” – CT Studd

‎”What is uttered from the heart alone, will win the hearts of others to your own.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“How shall we sing our love’s song now
In this strange land where all are born to die?
Each tree and leaf and star show how
The universe is part of this one cry,
That every life is noted and cherished
And nothing loved is ever lost or perished.”
– Madeleine L’Engle, from A Ring of Endless Light

“We have longed to taste the resurrection. We have longed to welcome its thunders and quakes, and to echo its great gifts. We want to test the resurrection in our bones. We want to see if we might live in hope instead of in the … twilight thicket of cultural despair, in which standing implies many are lost.” – Daniel Berrigan

“The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept. Not that we discover a new unity. We discover an older unity. My dear Brothers [and Sisters], we are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are.” – Thomas Merton

“Lord, in my zeal for the love of truth, let me not forget the truth about love.” — St. Thomas Aquinas

‎”What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new.” — Unknown

“We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.” — Charles R. Swindoll

“Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a
bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation
full of courage issue forth; let a people
loving freedom come to growth. Let a beauty full of
healing and a strength of final clenching be the pulsing
in our spirits and our blood. Let the martial songs be
written, let the dirges disappear. Let a race of [humans] now
rise and take control.”
- Margaret Walker, from her poem “For My People”

“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” – Hamilton Wright Mabie

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” – Mary Oliver, from her poem “The Summer Day”

“If you hate injustice, tyranny, lust and greed, hate these things in yourself.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” – Albert Einstein.

“God is love. Therefore love. Without distinction, without calculation, without procrastination, love.” – Henry Drummond

“To have courage for whatever comes in life — everything lies in that.” – Saint Teresa of Avila

“Sit with God as you might with the ocean. You bring nothing to the ocean, yet it changes you.” – Sean Caulfield, from The Experience of Praying

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each [human's] life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The ultimate question is whether the doctrine of the goodness of God or that of the inerrancy of Scriptures is to prevail when they conflict. I think the doctrine of the goodness of God is the more certain of the two. Indeed, only that doctrine renders this worship of Him obligatory or even permissible.” — C S Lewis

“We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” – C S Lewis

“Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.” – St. Gregory of Nyssa

“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.” – Thomas Moore

‎”We are simply human beings, enfolded in weakness and in hope, called together to change our world one heart at a time.” – Jean Vanier