religious quotes about strength
Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. ~Author unknown, as printed in The Hoosier Farmer
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. ~Mark Twain
By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog. ~Barbara Holland
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. ~Benjamin Spock, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care
A warless world will come as men develop warless hearts. ~Charles Wesley Burns
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. ~Mark Twain
It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - "voluntarily" sell - himself every day and hour to the "beast of property." ~Johann Most, The Beast of Property
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. ~Andre Gide
Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. ~Julian Huxley
The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there. ~Monica Baldwin
Ah, yes! the Torture Garden! Passions, appetites, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering. What I saw today, and what I heard, is no more than a symbol to me of the entire earth. I have vainly sought a respite in quietude and repose in death, and I can find them nowhere. ~"The Garden," Chapter 9 AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. ~Susan Sontag
There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct. ~Robert Brault, robertbrault.com~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. ~Olin Miller
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies. ~Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. ~e.e. cummings
Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush to the net. ~Franklin Adams
It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be. ~Homer
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. ~Mason Cooley
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ~Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays
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