May 2007


Wisdom19 May 2007 02:38 am

“Faith is a higher faculty than reason.”~ Philip James Bailey

“The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s backyard.”~ Abraham Maslow

“Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But Microscopes are prudent In an emergency.”~ Emily Dickinson

“Faith is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see.”~ William Newton Clark

“Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.”~ Oscar Wilde

“Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.”~ Oscar Wilde

“Mirror of constant faith, revered and mourn’d!” ~Homer

“Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.”~Sir William Osler

“Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods”~ C.S. Lewis

“O welcome pure-ey’d Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!” ~John Milton

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

General Topics12 May 2007 02:51 am

Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ~Abraham Lincoln

“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. ~Edmund Burke

“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. ~Simone de Beauvoir

“Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

“You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness. ~Robert Frost

“For Freedom’s battle once begun, Bequeath’d by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft is ever won.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

“History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.” ~Charles de Gaulle

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.” ~Mahatma Gandhi

“To freemen, threats are impotent.”~ Cicero

“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence.”~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“That’s free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing — the truly democratic thing about it — is that you don’t even have to be a player to lose.”~ Barbara Ehrenreich

“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. ~Woodrow Wilson

“None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.” ~Goethe

“Liberty: One of Imagination’s most precious possessions.” ~Ambrose Bierce

“Freedom means choosing your burden.” ~Hephzibah Menuhin

“Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.”~ Henry David Thoreau

“The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.” ~Leonid Brezhnev

” When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.”~ Dorothy Thompson

“Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.” ~Moshe Dayan

“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” ~Jean-Paul Sartre

“We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My angel, his name is Freedom, Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson