Credo-bytes
Jun/25/2005 05:20 PM | Favorite Entries
An ever-expanding list of quotable quotes that shape
my thinking and belief...
"The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."
-- Jesus of Nazareth
"Religion is a picture window,
Life is not a pretty picture..."
-- Patty Larkin
"God has no hands and feet but ours"
-- Theresa of Avila
"Distant nation...my community.
Street person...my responsibility.
If I have a care in the world, I have a gift to bring."
-- Indigo Girls
"Theology is the study of God and his (sic) ways. For all we know, dung beetles may study man (sic) and his (sic) ways and call it humanology. If so, we would probably be more touched and amused than irritated. One hopes that God feels likewise."
-- Frederick Buechner
"Logic lives in a bucket of paint,
Maybe I'm wrong, but maybe I ain't
Cause both can be spread with no trouble at all."
-- Darden Smith
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that"
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Still you argue for an option,
And you angle for your case.
Like you wouldn't know a burning bush,
If it blew up in your face...
Don't ask what you are not doing,
Because your voice cannot command.
In time, we will move mountains.
And it will come, through your hands."
-- John Hiatt
"Why do you worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear? Is not life more important than food and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?"
-- Jesus of Nazareth
"Don't be tempted by the shiny apple; Don't you eat of the bitter fruit.
Hunger only for a taste of justice; Hunger only for a world of truth,
'Cause all that you have is your soul."
--Tracy Chapman
"Be the change you want to see in the world."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways 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
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
--George Carlin
"Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans."
-- John Lennon
"But don’t confuse caring for weakness
You can’t put that label on me
The truth is my weapon of mass protection
And I believe truth sets you free"
-- Willie Nelson
"Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you."
-- Jesus of Nazareth
"People with no hope will steal yours."
-- Martin Luther King Jr. *
"We wouldn't worry so much about what people think of us, if we knew how seldom they do."
-- Oscar Wilde
"May we all find salvation in professions that heal."
-- Shawn Colvin
"You got to sing, like you don't need the money,
Love like you'll never get hurt,
You've got to dance, dance, dance, like no one is watching,
It's got to come from the heart, it you want it to work."
-- Guy Clark
"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
"Until long after it matters,
you don't know if you're good enough.
You can bet your dreams will be battered,
So just go after what you love."
-- John Gorka
"Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is Grace."
-- Frederick Buechner
"The antidote for too much free speech is always more free speech."
-- Molly Ivins
"Oh how I wish I were a trinity,
So if I lost a part of me,
I'd still have two of the same to live."
-- Indigo Girls
"The left has forgotten that every major social movement in American history --whether the abolition of slavery or women's sufferage or child labor reform or, most famously, civil rights-- was fueled and driven in large part by religion....Just as the right's been controlled by a bunch of religious fundamentalists, the left's been controlled by a group of secular fundamentalists. The left doesn't get it, and they're disrespectful and disdainful and they forget their own progressive history."
-- Jim Wallis
"May your love be there to guide us,
May it always keep us strong,
May we walk within your footsteps,
As you lead us ever on."
-- Dan Fogelberg
* I cannot find the exact citation for this quote, and would love for somebody to contact me with it....
"The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."
-- Jesus of Nazareth
"Religion is a picture window,
Life is not a pretty picture..."
-- Patty Larkin
"God has no hands and feet but ours"
-- Theresa of Avila
"Distant nation...my community.
Street person...my responsibility.
If I have a care in the world, I have a gift to bring."
-- Indigo Girls
"Theology is the study of God and his (sic) ways. For all we know, dung beetles may study man (sic) and his (sic) ways and call it humanology. If so, we would probably be more touched and amused than irritated. One hopes that God feels likewise."
-- Frederick Buechner
"Logic lives in a bucket of paint,
Maybe I'm wrong, but maybe I ain't
Cause both can be spread with no trouble at all."
-- Darden Smith
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that"
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Still you argue for an option,
And you angle for your case.
Like you wouldn't know a burning bush,
If it blew up in your face...
Don't ask what you are not doing,
Because your voice cannot command.
In time, we will move mountains.
And it will come, through your hands."
-- John Hiatt
"Why do you worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear? Is not life more important than food and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?"
-- Jesus of Nazareth
"Don't be tempted by the shiny apple; Don't you eat of the bitter fruit.
Hunger only for a taste of justice; Hunger only for a world of truth,
'Cause all that you have is your soul."
--Tracy Chapman
"Be the change you want to see in the world."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways 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
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
--George Carlin
"Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans."
-- John Lennon
"But don’t confuse caring for weakness
You can’t put that label on me
The truth is my weapon of mass protection
And I believe truth sets you free"
-- Willie Nelson
"Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you."
-- Jesus of Nazareth
"People with no hope will steal yours."
-- Martin Luther King Jr. *
"We wouldn't worry so much about what people think of us, if we knew how seldom they do."
-- Oscar Wilde
"May we all find salvation in professions that heal."
-- Shawn Colvin
"You got to sing, like you don't need the money,
Love like you'll never get hurt,
You've got to dance, dance, dance, like no one is watching,
It's got to come from the heart, it you want it to work."
-- Guy Clark
"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
"Until long after it matters,
you don't know if you're good enough.
You can bet your dreams will be battered,
So just go after what you love."
-- John Gorka
"Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is Grace."
-- Frederick Buechner
"The antidote for too much free speech is always more free speech."
-- Molly Ivins
"Oh how I wish I were a trinity,
So if I lost a part of me,
I'd still have two of the same to live."
-- Indigo Girls
"The left has forgotten that every major social movement in American history --whether the abolition of slavery or women's sufferage or child labor reform or, most famously, civil rights-- was fueled and driven in large part by religion....Just as the right's been controlled by a bunch of religious fundamentalists, the left's been controlled by a group of secular fundamentalists. The left doesn't get it, and they're disrespectful and disdainful and they forget their own progressive history."
-- Jim Wallis
"May your love be there to guide us,
May it always keep us strong,
May we walk within your footsteps,
As you lead us ever on."
-- Dan Fogelberg
* I cannot find the exact citation for this quote, and would love for somebody to contact me with it....
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