Roots Quotes - Page 23

• A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.

  Arthur Miller

  Long, People, Broken

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• If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Self, Deception, Want

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.233, Penguin

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• Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God who made us and not we ourselves. But we were made to be co-creators with our maker.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Humble, Dust, Earth

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.112, Convergent Books

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• I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love.

  Joy Harjo

  Journey, Light, Knowing

  Joy Harjo (1990). “In Mad Love and War”, p.25, Wesleyan University Press

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• It is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin. Let our grief run most in that channel, that as sin bred grief, so grief may consume sin.

  Richard Sibbes

  Running, Grief, Sorrow

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.51, Titus Books

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• A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose national motto has been "root, hog, or die."

  D. W Brogan

  Country, Japan, America

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• People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.

  E. V. Lucas

  People, Phrases, Guests

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• Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.

  William Shakespeare

  Greed, Strikes, Grows

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope (1747). “The Works of Shakespear: In Eight Volumes”, p.405

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• It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned when they use Jesus as a vehicle for achieving all of that. Like, if you give a tithe, He'll make you rich. Why? Are you hacking Him off or something? If you give a tithe, you get rid of ten percent of the root of all evil. You should be giving ninety percent. Cause God can handle money better than we can.

  Rich Mullins

  Jesus, Thinking, America

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• The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Humility, And Love

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.162, InterVarsity Press

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• Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Tree, Heaven

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.175, Routledge

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• I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption would mean an end to poverty.

  Benigno Aquino III

  Mean, Ideas, People

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• Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind; so faith takes firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Christian, Struggle, Wind

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1847). “Additional Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Late Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee: Consisting of Various Sermons and Lectures Delivered by Him in the Course of His Ministry”, p.470

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• It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful sense of being alone in an empty universe, the agonies that thrilled through me as if the blood were running ice-cold through my veins, the disgust with living, the impossibility of dying. Shakespeare himself never described this torture; but he counts it, in Hamlet, among the terrible of all the evils of existence. I had stopped composing; my mind seemed to become feebler as my feelings grew more intense. I did nothing. One power was left to me-to suffer.

  Hector Berlioz

  Depression, Running, Heart

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• The struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might. The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith.

  Ronald Reagan

  Faith, Spiritual, Military

  Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

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• The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

  Max Born

  Truth, Evil, World

  Max Born (2013). “Physics in My Generation”, p.143, Springer

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• Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

  Douglas Coupland

  Running, Two, People

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• No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error.

  Stuart Sherman

  Latin, Errors, Derivatives

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• Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause.

  Rick Warren

  Stress, Overcoming Adversity, Causes

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.164, Zondervan

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• At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over. It is Nielsen ratings and Barnum's axiom and the real bottom line. It is big, big business.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Mean, Humility

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• My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am thy yesterday and thou are my tomorrow. I am they root in the earth and thou art my flower in the sky, and together we grow before the face of the sun.

  Khalil Gibran

  Religious, Art, Flower

  Khalil Gibran, “God”

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• We talk of regional conflicts, of economic and social crises, of political instability, of abuses of human rights, of racism, religious intolerance, inequalities between rich and poor, hunger, over-population, under-development and. I could go on and on. Each and every one of these impediments to humanity's pursuit of well-being are also among the root causes of refugee problems.

  Poul Hartling

  Religious, Rights, Racism

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• Ideas are the root of creation.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Ideas, Creation

  "The Power of Thought". Published by Prima, p. 119, 1998.

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• There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating.

  Sigmund Freud

  Beauty, Beautiful, Doubt

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud (1953). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: case of hysteria, Three essays on sexuality, and other works”

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• Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost contemptible, and glance off us lightly...Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance. Bathrobes. Yawning and stretching. Real tomatoes.

  Barbara Holland

  Real, Shoes, Ordinary Days

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