BIRTHDAYS JUNE 24, 2023
JOHN OF THE CROSS 1542-1591 “Dark Night of the Soul”
TO LOVE IS TO BE TRANSFORMED INTO WHAT WE LOVE. TO LOVE GOD IS THEREFORE TO BE TRANSFORMED INTO GOD.
SILENCE IS GOD’S FIRST LANGUAGE.
WHERE there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
IN THE INNER STILLNESS WHERE MEDITATION LEADS, THE SPIRIT SECRETLY ANOINTS THE SOUL AND HEALS OUR DEEPEST WOUNDS.
LIVE IN THE WORLD AS IF ONLY GOD and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.
IN the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of god.
GOD LEADS EVERY SOUL BY A SEPARATE PATH.
IT IS GREAT WISDOM TO KNOW HOW TO BE SILENT and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
IF you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.
HAVE A GREAT LOVE for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love.
THE SOUL that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.
NOW THAT I NO LONGER DESIRE ALL, I HAVE ALL WITHOUT DESIRE.
AMBROSE PIERCE 1842-1914 “The Devil’s Dictionary”
IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
DEMOCRACY IS FOUR WOLVES AND A LAMB VOTING ON WHAT
TO HAVE FOR LUNCH.
POLITICS: A STRIFE OF INTERESTS masquerading as a contest of principles. conduct of public affairs for private advantage.The
ABSTAINER: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
LOTTERY: A TAX ON PEOPLE WHO ARE BAD AT MATH.
WAR IS GOD’S WAY OF TEACHING AMERICANS GEOGRAPHY.
THE MOST AFFECTIONATE CREATURE IN THE WORLD IS A WET DOG.
HE WHO THINKS WITH DIFFICULTY BELIEVES WITH ALACRITY.
CONVENT — a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
CONSERVATIVE, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
CLAUDE CHABROL. 1930-2010 “The Unfaithful Wife” “Hell”
STUPIDITY is infinitely more fascinating than intelligence. intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.
WE LIVE IN AN ERA WHERE PIZZAS SHOW UP FASTER THAN THE POLICE.
I’M NOT PESSIMISTIC about people in general, but only about the way they live.
TO OBSERVE profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that’s why we should never feel contempt for them.
HENRY WARD BEECHER 1813-1887 “PROVERBS FROM PLYMOUTH”
FIND OUT what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
TOO MUCH LOOKING BACKWARD . . . IS BAD FOR PROGRESS.
EVERY TOMORROW has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
WE should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
A PERSON WITHOUT A SENSE OF HUMOR IS LIKE A WAGON WITHOUT SPRINGS. IT’S JOLTED BY EVERY PEBBLE ON THE ROAD.
HOLD YOURSELF responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
NO MAN can tell if he is rich or poor by turning his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
THE SOUL WITHOUT IMAGINATION IS WHAT AN OBSERVATORY WOULD BE WITHOUT A TELESCOPE.
WELL MARRIED a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
THE THANKFUL HEART will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
GRATITUDE is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
HE IS THE GREATEST WHOSE STRENGTH CARRIES UP THE MOST HEARTS BY THE ATTRACTION OF HIS OWN.
EVERY MAN HAS INFLUENCE FOR GOOD OR BAD ON OTHERS.
LOVE AND PEACE