quotes on jesus

Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses, as certainly wrong, but so venial as scarcely to deserve censure. ~W.E.H. Lecky


No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. ~Robert Adams, Darkroom & Creative Camera Techniques, May 1995


God enters by a private door into each individual. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. ~Michel de Montaigne


No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. ~Robert Adams, Darkroom & Creative Camera Techniques, May 1995


It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious. ~Kin Hubbard


Turn your wounds into wisdom. ~Oprah Winfrey


Traverse: One of two ways to stop while skiing. Tree: The other method. ~Author Unknown


What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. ~Colette


I dropped a tear in the ocean. The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you. ~Author Unknown


If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Dogen


She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes. ~Frank Deford


Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. ~Christopher Morley


All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality. ~Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain


Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous. ~John Jay Chapman


There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. ~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton


"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry." ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 24, spoken by the character Mr. Antolini


The truth needs so little rehearsal. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams


If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul. ~Logan P. Smith


There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind." ~W. MacNeile Dixon