Golden Quotes - Page 31

• Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.

  Mark Buchanan

  Giving, Embrace, Sabbath

  Mark Buchanan (2007). “The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath”, p.129, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Reach for the sky
  Keep your eye on the prize
  Forever in my mind
  Be my golden sunshine
  It's raining in your mind
  So push them clouds aside
  Forever by my side
  You're my golden sunshine

  Matisyahu

  Rain, Eye, Sunshine

  Song: Sunshine, Album: Spark Seeker, 2012

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• Everybody stumbles across a golden opportunity at least once in a lifetime. Unfortunately most people just pick themselves up, dust themselves down, and walk away from it.

  Winston Churchill

  Opportunity, Dust, People

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• Shy gold begins to peep through the sombre green - the wattle's wedding dress - and Spring is near. Then suddenly it seems, one golden morning, the Bush awakes, a living thing. Flowers bloom, birds sing, and all the world puts on its gayest dress to greet the laughing Spring.

  C. J. Dennis

  Nature, Morning, Laughter

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• The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Morning, Air, Pouring

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1912). “The complete poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.1714, Library of Alexandria

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• I hear no one boast, that he hath a knowledge of the Scriptures, but that he owneth a Bible written in golden characters. And tell me then, what profiteth this? The Holy Scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them upon our hearts.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Book, Heart, Character

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• God does not lie in our collective past, God lies in our collective future; the Garden of Eden is tomorrow, not yetsterday; the Golden Age lies down the road, not up it.

  Ken Wilber

  Lying, Future, Past

  Ken Wilber (2001). “The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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• Gratitude. More aware of what you have than what you don't. Recognizing the treasure in the simple - a child's hug, fertile soil, a golden sunset. Relishing in the comfort of the common.

  Max Lucado

  Gratitude, Children, Sunset

  Max Lucado (2012). “Six Hours One Friday: Living in the Power of the Cross”, p.45, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world; yet, if he is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Selfish, Palaces, Rags

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.48, Advaita Ashrama

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• Embrace the truth. Speak the truth. Be the truth. When we welcome the truth, we live our lives like it's golden.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Welcome, Speak, Truth Is

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• All religions are like precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Divinity, Pearls, Thread

  "The Divine Science: Eternal Techniques of Authentic Mysticism".

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• A person with a golden heart is filled with love and likes to see something that he starts completed and done well.

  Harold Klemp

  Heart, Done, Likes

  Harold Klemp (1988). “Book of Eck Parables”, Illuminated Way Publishing

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• Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Eggs, Swim, Fishes

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• For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Prime

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Recollection Of The Arabian Nights”

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• Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Opposites, Cities

  Tahir Shah (2013). “Sorcerer's Apprentice paperback”, p.161, Lulu.com

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• You could travel the world, but nothing comes close to the golden coast. Once you party with us, you'll be falling in love, Oooooh Oh Oooooh!

  Katy Perry

  Falling In Love, Travel, Party

  Song: California Girls

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• I left my heart in San Francisco, high on a hill, it calls to me. To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars, the morning fog may chill the air, I don't care. My love waits there in San Francisco, above the blue and windy sea, when I come home to you, San Francisco , your golden sun will shine for me.

  Tony Bennett

  Travel, Morning, Stars

  Song: (I Left My Heart) In San Francisco, 1962

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• Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.

  John Keats

  Music, Men, Tears

  John Keats (2010). “Bright Star: The Complete Poems and Selected Letters”, p.224, Random House

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• In holy music's golden speech Remotest notes to notes respond: Each octave is a world; yet each Vibrates to worlds beyond its own.

  Aubrey Thomas de Vere

  Music, World, Speech

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• A portable friend to all readers-especia lly but not only women-who need to learn that the Golden Rule works only if it's reversible: We must learn to treat ourselves as well as we wish to treat others.

  Gloria Steinem

  Wish, Needs, Treats

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• It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning , witchcraft and sacerdotalism.

  H. L. Mencken

  Book, Race, Years

  H. L. Mencken (2003). “The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.57, See Sharp Press

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• When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?

  C. S. Lewis

  Fool, Praying, Moments

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A cool & diversified version of a mix tape. The BreakBeat Poets is a thorough and complete summation of Golden Era writers who continue to build the scene of literary and performance poetry.

  Chance the Rapper

  Tape, Eras, Poet

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• I’ve been looking for a long, long time,
  for this thing called love,
  I’ve ridden comets across the sky,
  and I’ve looked below and above.
  Then one day I looked inside myself,
  and this is what I found,
  A golden sun residing there,
  beaming forth God’s light and sound.

  Rumi

  Light, Sky, Long

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• Fiery trials make golden Christians.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Trials, Fiery

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