I love quotes, and complex, concise, or witty use of English. Here are the ones I took the time to print - as they look on my wall.
Only dead fish go with the flow.
Peter's Thermometer of the Believer
Where are you in this progression?
Add to your
Faith
Virtue, to virtue
Knowledge, to knowledge
Self-control, to self-control
Perseverance, to perseverance
Godliness, to godliness
Brotherly Kindness, and to brotherly kindness
Love.
2 Peter 1:5b - 7
and Love means this
Love suffers long and is kind;
love does not envy;
love does not parade itself,
is not puffed up;
does not behave rudely,
does not seek its own,
is not provoked,
thinks no evil;
does not rejoice in iniquity,
but rejoices in the truth;
bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8a
So we've got a lot of work to do.
It's hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs
because they're always taking things literally!
-heard on CBC's Q
Nothing seems really to matter,
that's the charm of it.
Whether you get away,
or whether you don't,
whether you arrive at your destination
or whether you reach somewhere else,
or whether you never get anywhere at all,
you're always busy,
and you never do anything in particular;
and when you've done it
there's always something else to do,
and you can do it if you'd like,
but you'd much better not.
-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
What of the hunting, hunter bold?
Brother, the watch was long and cold.
What of the quarry ye went to kill?
Brother, he crops in the jungle still.
Where is the power that made your pride?
Brother, it ebbs from my flank and side.
Where is the haste that ye hurry by?
Brother, I go to my lair to die.
"Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people
will come for miles to watch you burn."
-John Wesley
Do not let your adornment by merely outward--arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel--rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.
1 Peter 3:3-4
A young man cannot be miserable. An old emperor envies the first youth he meets, poor though he may be, for he has health and strength, a nimble step, warmly circulating blood, white teeth, red lips, fresh cheeks, and pure breath. He may have to work for his daily bread, but while his hands earn it, his backbone stiffens with pride and his brain reels in ideas. His tasks over, he returns to ineffable ecstasy, joy, and contemplation. He lives with his feet in affliction, on the stones, among obstacles, amid briers, sometimes in mud; but his head is in the light. He is firm, serene, gentle, peaceful, attentive, serious, benevolent, and contented with little. He blesses God for having bestowed on him the riches denied many of the wealthy - the labor which makes him free and the thoughts which make him worthy. -Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
My heart is overflowing with a good theme;
I recite my composition concerning the King;
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Psalm 45:1
A hero is no braver
than an ordinary man,
but he is braver
five minutes longer.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Organizing
is what you do
before you do something
so that when you do it
it's not all mixed up.
-A. A. Milne
"As your days,
Your strength
Shall be in
Measure."
...having ascertained that I was myself in my usual Quaker trim, where there was nothing to retouch - all being to close and plain, braided locks included, to admit of disarrangement... Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Lost, between sunrise and sunset,
One golden hour, set with sixty diamond minutes,
No reward is offered, for it is gone forever.
Imagination
It must be the gift of good fairies at birth
and the years can never deface it of take it away.
It is better to posses it, living in a garret,
Than to be the inhabitant of palaces without it.
--L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
"I have heard the commandments read a great many times, and I never noticed that any of them said "Thou shalt be rich"; and there are a good many curious things said in the New Testament about rich men that I think would make me feel rather queer if I was one of them." -Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
"Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can."
-John Wesley
David's Favorability Rating: 100 %
"Now all the people took note of it,
and it pleased them, since whatever
the king did pleased all the people."
-2 Samuel 3:3b
So What Went Wrong Now? David writes:
"I am a reproach among all my enemies,
But especially among my neighbors,
And am repulsive to my acquaintances,
Those who see me outside flee from me."
Rule for Social Media:
"...having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles,
that when they speak against you as evildoers,
they may, by your good works which they observe,
glorify God..." 1 Peter 2:12
"Wouldn't he know without being asked?" said Polly.
"I've no doubt that he would," said the horse, (still with his mouth full).
"But I've a sort of idea he likes to be asked."
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