Your Favorite Quotes
Last month, we asked for your help to develop a summer reading list. We now have enough great book ideas to last well past winter. This month’s question is similar: we’d like to know the quotes you live by, that inspire you, or that make you laugh. Please let us know your favorites.
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June 25th, 2009 at 3:05 am
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Gandhi
June 30th, 2009 at 11:52 am
The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest for of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless. -Billy Graham
June 30th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
“Why are we here if not to love one another?” Rev. Ernest Martello O.S.C.
June 30th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
A chain is as strong as its weakest link. (Sr. Ethel Rita,SSND,7th grade, St. Teresa’s, Wash., DC)
Dare to be different. (Sr. Catherine Ignatia, SNDeN, Freshman homeroom teacher, Notre Dame Academy, Wash., DC)
June 30th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
“If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.” Unknown
June 30th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy; it is art.
Bliss Carmen
June 30th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Speak truth to power.
American Friends Service Committee (1955). Speak Truth to Power: a Quaker Search for an Alternative to Violence. Philadelphia (according to WikiQuote.com)
June 30th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
“Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man….such a man is a true gentleman.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
June 30th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
“So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key.” The Eagles
June 30th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
June 30th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
“He looks for Faith that IMMEDIATELY lays to rest the doubts of the day as they arise”
~Two Listeners~
June 30th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet. Frederick Buechner
June 30th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Preach the gospel always, when necessary use words. ~St. Francis
June 30th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
“My job is to take care of the possible and trust God with the impossible.”
June 30th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are for.
June 30th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
“Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself.” ~ Indian Saying
“A student once asked his teacher, ‘Master, what is the most profound lesson you can teach me?’ The Master made a deep bow to his student.” ~ Zen Saying
“A student once asked his teacher how he could become enlightened right now. The Master poured him a cup of tea, gave it to him, then said, ‘drink the tea.'” ~ Zen Saying
June 30th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful,
the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the
clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire
within you, to leave this world better than when you found it.
— Wilfred Peterson
June 30th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Humility is not thinking less of yourself. It is thinking of your self less. -G. K. Chesterton
June 30th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa
June 30th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Be still and know that I am God.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
The moral universe rests upon the breath of schoolchildren.
Rabbi Yehuda Nisiah
circa 250 C.E.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer
Great love and great achievement involve great risks.
Mother Teresa
June 30th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
“There was one thing that was too great for God to show us when He walked upon our earth; and I have sometimes fancied that it was His mirth.”- G.K. Chesterton
June 30th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
By and large, people are about as happy as they choose to be. Abraham Lincoln?
No matter where you go, there you are!
June 30th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
If you are not outraged
you are not paying attention. Unknown
If you want peace, work for justice.
Pope Paul VI
June 30th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
“Pick up your cross and follow Me.”
June 30th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
I also agree with the Ghandi quote,”Be the change…,, but another favorite is anthropologist Margaret Mead’s quote,
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
June 30th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
There are saying that you just don’t hear anymore such as:
When you point at someone there are three fingers pointing back at you!!!
Try it ans see what happens.
Treat People as you would want to be treated!!!
One thing parents have to remember that is so important to babies meaning children ages from the ages 0 to seven year old.
Babie don’t lie they fib the difference is as follows:
Adults know that a lie will hurt or get them out of trouble that they knew they did but they just want to clean up what they did.
Children for the most part fib not to get anyone in trouble but to reflect off them what they did. The best part children learn how to fib by watching their parents because they are a sponge and they drink in everything that adults do good or bad.
There is a another big one that people do all of the time.
For every reaction there in an action so you have to be very careful what you do to people and out in public because you are always being watched.
The biggest thing that people have forgotten and it is important to everyone living today!!!
IN GOD WE TRUST!!!
June 30th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
“Where books are burned,in the end people will
burn.” Heinrich Heine
June 30th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Lord, Help me to blossom as the kind of flower You have made me, and where You have planted me…” – St Therese of Lisieux
June 30th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Love, love, love, love…. that is the soul of genius.
Mozart
July 1st, 2009 at 12:29 am
“Common sense is anything but…” R. Heinlein
July 1st, 2009 at 1:08 am
But someone may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.”
James 2:18
July 1st, 2009 at 1:10 am
“The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice . . .”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:37 am
Be sure to speak lively words with your mouth because what ever liveless word you say a devil take advantage of that and make it happen as you said.Most people use to say I am poor why can’t they say I am rich so God will make them rich,poverty comes from our mouths.
July 1st, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
-Pope John Paul II
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:22 am
C.S. Lewis “Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.”
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
Mohammed Ali
July 3rd, 2009 at 11:30 am
You have been told what is good and what the Lord requires of you – to act justly, to love tenderly and to walk humbly with God.
Micah 6:8
Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. Paolo Freire
Si quiere paz, lucha por la justicia. Pablo VI
Nothing about us without us is for us.
I came that they might have life and have it in abundance. John 10:10
July 3rd, 2009 at 1:56 pm
“I can do many small things with great love.”
Blessed Mother Teresa
July 3rd, 2009 at 1:58 pm
“When you save one life, you save a thousand generations.”
from Schindler’s List
July 7th, 2009 at 10:43 am
If you want to kiss the sky, you beter learn how to kneel.
Bono-U2
Whether you think that you can or that you can’t, you’re probably right.
Henry Ford
Genius equals 1 percent inspiration plus 99 percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison
July 21st, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Everything happens for a reason
When God closes a door, he opens a window
July 28th, 2009 at 11:25 am
from Mary Ann:
“The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race.”
John Stuart Mill
July 28th, 2009 at 11:59 am
I think most know where this quote came from:
“Love one another as I have loved you.”