Emberiza Schoeniclus Quotes & Sayings

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. — Bertrand Russell

You can't tear up everything just to get the dollar out of it without suffering as result. It is a travesty to burn our woods and thereby burn up the fertilizer nature has provided for us. We must enrich our soil every year instead of merely depleting it. It is fundamental that nature will drive away those who commit sin against it. — George Washington Carver

If in a Christian pulpit you have no business saying, "I suggest to you" No! "These things I declare to you." — David Lloyd-Jones

See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace. — John Owen

All we got is the family unbroke. — John Steinbeck

I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. — Gertrude Stein