Thursday, February 10, 2011

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
- Mother Teresa

The opposite of sin is grace- not virtue.
-Henri Nouwen

Justice is truth in action.
-Benjamin Disraeli

I object to violence, because when it appears to do good, the only good is temporary, the evil it does is permanent.
-Ghandi

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really work doing, is what we do for others.
-Lewis Carroll

Every man is guilty of the good he did not do.
-Voltaire

Here, bring your wounded hearts, here tell you anguish, Earth has no sorrow Heaven cannot heal.
-Thomas Moore

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Jesus never spoke to a prostitute- because Jesus never saw a prostitute- only a woman who desperately needed to be loved.
- Philip Yancey

To truely love a person, means to see them as God intended them to be
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.
-Henri Nouwen

There isn't anyone who isn't Jesus Christ himself, buddy!
- Zooey Glass (Salinger)

It isn't enough to treat her with the doting brutality of an Apache dancer toward his partner.
- Buddy Glass (Salinger)

" Some of the most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government.. and I'm here to help you."
- Ronald Raegan

I love you too.. but I'm going to mace you in the face!
- Jack Whitman (Darjeeling Limited)

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
- Kurt Vonnegut

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