All Things Quotes - Page 36

• Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

  Andre Maurois

  Inspirational, Enemy, Retreat

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• Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous, etc. Consider every act of this kind as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties and increase your worth.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Grateful, Exercise, Religion

  Thomas Jefferson (1963). “The Thomas Jefferson Papers”, Dodd

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• The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things. And, incomprehensibly difficult as it is for a man to conceive what a first cause is, he arrives at the belief of it, from the tenfold greater difficulty of disbelieving it. It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult to conceive an end. It is difficult beyond the power of man to conceive an eternal duration of what we call time; but it is more impossible to conceive a time when there shall be no time.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Names, Ideas

  Thomas Paine (1794). “Paine's Age of Reason, with Remarks, Containing a Vindication of the Doctrines of Christianity from the Aspersions of that Author. By a Citizen of the World [i.e. James Tytler]”, p.73

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• All things must come to pass as one, so hope should never die. There is no height or bloody might that a freeman can’t defy. There is no source or foreign force can break one man who knows that his free will no thing can kill … and from that, freedom grows.

  Bobby Sands

  Men, Height, Might

  Bobby Sands (1982). “Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands”, Irish Amer Book Company

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• Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

  Ida Tarbell

  Future, Keys, Imagination

  Ida M. Tarbell (2010). “The History of the Standard Oil Company ( 2 Volumes in 1)”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

  John Dryden

  Order, Grace, Peculiar

  John Dryden (1990). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX: Prose 1691-1698 De Arte Graphica and Shorter Works”, p.132, Univ of California Press

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• To this day God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans and intentions and change the course of my life for better or worse.

  Carl Jung

  Views, Names, Upset

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.6, Princeton University Press

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• Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference. This boredom reveals being as a whole.

  Martin Heidegger

  Men, Fog, Profound

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• All truths wait in all things.

  Walt Whitman

  Waiting, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman, Gary David Comstock (2004). “Whitman: The Mystic Poets”, p.72, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• It is because God is infinitely great and good that his glory is the end of all things; and his good pleasure the highest reason for whatever comes to pass. What is man that he should contend with God, or presume that his interests rather than God's glory should be made the final end?

  Charles Hodge

  Men, Finals, Glory

  Charles Hodge (1872). “Systematic Theology”, p.339

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• Above all things we must be aware of what I will call 'inert ideas'
  - that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind
  without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Ideas, Mind, Combination

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• Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Sometimes, Seems, Thyself

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1902). “The House of Life: A Sonnet-sequence”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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• If thou canst believe, all things are possible.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Believe, Strangest Secret, Ifs

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2015). “The Power of Words”, p.22, Florence Scovel Shinn

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• Man's word is his wand filled with magic and power! Man comes into the world financed by God, with all that he desires or requires already on his pathway. This supply is released through faith and the Spoken Word. If thou canst believe, all things are possible.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Believe, Men, Magic

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• The nuns taught us there are two ways through life... the way of Nature... and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy... when all the world is shining around it... when love is smiling through all things.

  Terrence Malick

  Love Is, Two, Shining

  "Fictional character: Mrs. O'Brien". "The Tree of Life", May 2011.

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• The churchyard is the market place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before.

  Richard Baxter

  Vanity, World, True Value

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• Howbeit your faith seeth but the black side of providence, yet it hath a better side, and God shall let you see it. ... “For we know that all things work together for good to them that love God,” ergo, shipwreck, losses, &c., work together for the good of them that love God: hence I infer, that losses, disappointments, ill tongues, loss of friends, houses, or country, are God's workmen, set on work to work out good to you, out of everything that befalleth you.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Country, Disappointment, Loss

  "Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford".

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• There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Easter, Art, Gleam

  Evelyn Waugh, Mark Amory (1980). “The letters of Evelyn Waugh”, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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• That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

  John Updike

  Marriage, Real, Heaven

  John Updike (2011). “Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism”, p.467, Random House

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• All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.

  Heraclitus

  Opposites, Together, Sound

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• Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos, they [men] are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.

  Heraclitus

  Men, People, Wake Up

  "Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments".

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• Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

  Heraclitus

  Couple, Agree, Disagree

  "Fragments (Fragment 10)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

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• Man is the measure of all things, of things that are that they are, and of things that are not that they are not.

  Protagoras

  Men

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• Of all things, I do like a Conspiracy! It's so interesting!

  Lewis Carroll

  Interesting, Conspiracy

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.233, Race Point Pub

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• All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Want, Proof

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.158, Penguin

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