Meditations' Archive 

October 2009

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. (Bible, Proverbs: 17:22) 

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. (John Stuart Mill)

The first man to raise a fist is the man who has run out of ideas. (H G Wells)

God has no religion. (Mahatma Gandhi) 

Physician, heal thyself. (Luke, chapter 4, v.23) 

November 2009 

Before honor is humility. (Bible, Proverbs: 15:33 & 18:12)

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne. (Miguel de Cervantes)

The spirit of God is the brother of my own. (Walt Whitman) 

The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it. (John Galsworthy) 

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious convictions. (Blaise Pascal) 

December 2009

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth until the Lord. (Bible, Proverbs: 19:17) 

Freedom is always freedom for the one who thinks differently. (Rosa Luxemburg) 

You have a loaf of bread under each arm and you're crying because you don't have any ham? (Old Italian saying) 

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it. (William James) 

Don't wait for your ship to come in – row out to meet it. (Unknown wise person) 

January 2010

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. (Miguel de Cervantes) 

God does not play dice. (Albert Einstein) 

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Galileo Galilei) 

It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it. (G K Chesterton) 

I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. (Doug McLeod) 

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic? (Lily Tomlin) 

February 2010 

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by. (Christina Rossetti) 

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. (Thomas Jefferson) 

Better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. (Elizabeth Kenny) 

Always remember you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. (Margaret Mead) 

Every day people are straying away from church and going back to God. (Lenny Bruce) 

Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying the grudge, the other guy's out dancing. (Buddy Hacketti) 

March 2010

If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burden. (Ashleigh Brilliant)

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. (Mark Twain)

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. (Albert Einstein)

All sins are attempts to fill voids. (Simone Weil)

Trust your friends as you do your picture, and place them in their best light. (Jennie Churchill)

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself. (Josiah Royce)

April 2010

There are many religions, but there is only one morality. (John Ruskin)

A lie goes around the world while the truth is still putting its boots on. (Australian proverb)

God enters by a private door into every individual. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was 'Thank you,' that would suffice. (Meister Eckhart)

It is the heart which experiences God, not the reason. (Blaise Pascal)

When we lose God, it is not God who is lost. (Anonymous)

May 2010

Better late than never. (Anonymous) 

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts. (Madeleine L'Engle) 

I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them. (Diana, Princess of Wales) 

If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another, before you do anything you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart. (Marilyn vos Savant) 

Leaders can be moral – and they should be moral – without imposing their morality on others. (Geraldine Ferraro) 

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. (George Eliot)

June 2010

When you can't hear God, he is listening. (Voice in the night)

Some pursue happiness - others create it. (Anonymous)

Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes. (Agnes Turnbull)

Yesterday is a cancelled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is cash in hand. Spend it! (John W Newbern)

God speaks to all individuals through what happens to them moment by moment. (J P DeCaussade)

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable. (Storm Jameson)