Quotations

Although today he prunes my twigs with pain, Yet doth his blood nourish and warm my root: Tomorrow I shall put forth buds again And clothe myself with fruit. Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) English writer and poet

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I; But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by. Christina Georgina Rosseti (1830-1894) English writer and poet, the sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank. Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) English writer and poet, the sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. Dante Gabriel Rosseti (1828-1882) English Pre-Raphaelite painter and poet

I invent nothing. I rediscover. Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) French sculptor and artist

The Infinite has sowed his name in the heavens in glowing stars, but on the earth he has sowed his name in tender flowers. Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (1763-1825) German novelist

It is the calling of great men, not so much to preach new truths, as to rescue from oblivion those old truths which it is our wisdom to remember and our weakness to forget. Sydney Smith (1771-1845) English essayist and clergyman

Fame is nothing but what a man is in comparison with others... it vanishes the moment other people become what the famous man is. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher

A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time. He alone knows the correct time but of what use is this to him? The whole world is guided by the clocks that show the wrong time. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher

I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to God. Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980) French philosopher

The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher

Faith is like love. It cannot be forced. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher

A scar on the conscience is the same as a wound. Publilius Syrus (First Century B.C.) Latin writer of versified aphorisms

As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace, he will be in the furnace with them. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) English fundamentalist Baptist minister

I will chide no heathen in the world but myself Against whom I know most faults. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Dramatist and Poet

Come what come may; Time and the hour runs through the darkest day. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Dramatist and Poet

Forebear to judge, for we are sinners all. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Dramatist and Poet

Men's evil manners live in brass, Their virtues we write in water. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Dramatist and Poet

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Dramatist and Poet

God be praised, that to believing soul Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair! William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Dramatist and Poet

The empty vessel makes the greatest sound. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Dramatist and Poet

God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide, and lantern to my feet. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Dramatist and Poet

Everyone can master a grief but he that has it. (From Much Ado About Nothing) William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Dramatist and Poet

Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Dramatist and Poet

There is a tide in the affairs of men; Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life; Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Dramatist and Poet

The quality of mercy is not strain'd. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice bless'd: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Dramatist and Poet

Knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Dramatist and Poet

This above all - to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as night follows day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Dramatist and Poet

Opportunity is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Dramatist and Poet

What's gone and what's past help Should be past grief. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Dramatist and Poet

Conscience is God's presence in man Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) Swedish philosopher and theologian

Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge. King Leszczynski Stanislaw I(1677-1766) King of Poland and man of letters

Could I climb to the highest place in Athens, I would lift my voice and proclaim: 'Fellow citizens, why do you turn and scrape every stone to gather wealth, and take so little care of your children to whom one day you must relinquish it all?' Socrates (470-399 B.C.) Greek philosopher

Whom, then, do I call educated? First, those who control circumstances instead of being mastered by them, those who meet all occasions manfully and act in accordance with intelligent thinking; those who are honorable in all dealings, who treat good-naturedly persons and things that are disagreeable; and furthermore, those who hold their pleasures under control and are not overcome by misfortune; finally those who are not spoiled by success. Socrates (469-399 B.C.) Greek philosopher

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. Socrates (470-399 B.C.) Greek philosopher

Let him that would move the world first move himself. Socrates (470-399 B.C.) Greek philosopher

He is richest who is content with the least. Socrates (470-399 B.C.) Greek philosopher

The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates (C. 428-348 B.C.) Greek philosopher

To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not; for it is to think one knows what one does not know. No man knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest of blessings for a human being and yet people fear it as if they knew for certain that is is the greatest of evils. Socrates (c. 469-399 BC) Greek philosopher

He that does good to another man does also good to himself; not only in the consequence, but in the very act of doing it. The consciousness of well doing is an ample reward. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (C. 4 B.C.-A.D. Roman philosopher and statesman; he was advisor to Nero

He that does good to another does good to himself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (C. 4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Roman philosopher and statesman

The whole of art is only an imitation of nature. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (C. 4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Roman philosopher and statesman

Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your betters. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (C. 4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Roman philosopher and statesman

He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it of all its nobility. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (C. 4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Roman philosopher and statesman

It is with life as with a play; what matters is not how long it is, but how good it is. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (C. 4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Roman philosopher and statesman

Life in itself is neither good nor an evil; it is the scene of good and evil. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (C. 4 B.C.-A.D. Roman philosopher and statesman

No man loves life as he who's growing old. Sophocles (C. 496-406 B.C.) Greek dramatist

It is my rule, from experience, to remember my friend may become my enemy, and my enemy my friend. Sophocles (C. 496-406 B.C.) Greek dramatist

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law. Sophocles (C. 496-406 B.C.) Greek dramatist

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest. Sophocles (C. 496-406 B.C.) Greek dramatist

Numberless are the world's wonders, but none more wonderful than man. Sophocles (C. 496-406 B.C.) Greek dramatist

The good man is his own friend. Sophocles (C. 496-406 B.C.) Greek dramatist

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. Sophocles (C. 496-406 B.C.) Greek dramatist

Pride, when puffed up, vainly, with many things Unseasonable, unfitting, mounts the wall, Only to hurry to that fatal fall. Sophocles (C. 496-406 B.C.) Greek dramatist

I beg you, do not be unchangeable. Do not believe that you alone can be right. The man who thinks that, The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul, A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty. Sophocles (C. 496-406 B.C.) Greek dramatist

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish comic dramatist, social propagandist and literary critic

If man ever appears as a consummate ass, it is when he denies the existence of God Bllly Sunday (1862-1935) U.S. Evangelist

If upward you can soar and let God have his way, Then this has in your spirit become Ascension Day. Angelus Silesius (1624-1677) Religious poet and court physician

God's heavenly plan doesn't always make earthly sense. Charles R. Swindoll (1934- ) U.S. evangelist

It is in lonely solitude that God delivers his best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive them. Charles R. Swindoll (1934- ) American Evangelist

It is no profit to have learned well if you neglect to do well. Publulius Syrus (Flrst Century B.C.) Latin writer of aphorisms

It is not every question that deserves an answer. Publilius Syrus (Flrst Century B.C.) Latin writer of versified aphorisms

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock in a thunderstorm. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850-1894) English writer

Stars may be seen from the bottom of a well when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) English fundamentalist Baptist minister

The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never; it is the units, the single individuals, that are the power and the might. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) English fundamentalist Baptist minister

The meaning of earthly existence lies, not as we have grown used to think ing, in prospering, but in the development of the soul. Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918- ) Russian writer

The universe is one of God's thoughts Johann Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805) German poet and dramatist

Discouraged people don't need criticism. They hurt enough already. They don't need more guilt or piled-on distress. They need encouragement. They need a refuge. A willing, caring, available someone. Charles R. Swindoll (1934- ) American Evangelist

Who in this mortal life would see The Light that is beyond all light, Beholds it best by going forth Into the darkness of the night. Angelus Silesius (1624-1677) Religious poet and court physician

Who in this mortal life would see The Light that is beyond all light, Beholds it best by going forth Into the darkness of the night. Angelus Silesius (1624-1677) Religious poet and court physician