Dawuds Pawn Quotes & Sayings

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody. — Sammy Davis Jr.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle.

The Holy Spirit is saying that no authority or authoritative being exists that was not created by Jesus Christ. This is a statement beyond creation. It is a statement of Godhead. — Todd Coburn

Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe. — Shirley Temple

Prayer really can change things. — Tyler Perry

There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us. — Alec Waugh

We have almost all had the experience of gazing at the full moon. But those of us who are neither astronomers nor astronauts are unlikely to have scheduled moongazing appointments. For Zen Buddhists in Japan, however, every year, on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the traditional Japanese lunisolar calendar, followers gather at nightfall around specially constructed cone-shaped viewing platforms, where for several hours prayers are read aloud which use the moon as a springboard for reflections on Zen ideas of impermanence, a ritual known as tsukimi. Candles are lit and white rice dumplings (tsukimi dango) are prepared and shared out among strangers in an atmosphere at once companionable and serene, a feeling thereby supported by a ceremony, by architecture, by good company and by food. — Alain De Botton

Everything we look upon is blest. — William Butler Yeats