Fools Crow Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes it feels like energy or electricity when it is moving in and through us, but spiritual power is really a distinctive kind of knowledge that is like the key that opens the door or the switch that starts the energy moving. — Frank Fools Crow

The ones who complain and talk the most about giving away Medicine Secrets, are always those who know the least. — Frank Fools Crow

Remember and think about the closeness of the Creator. If you live in this wisdom, it will give you endless strength and hope. — Frank Fools Crow

If we keep everything in balance, we are in harmony with ourselves and are at peace. — Frank Fools Crow

The greater the faith, the greater the result. — Frank Fools Crow

I do not always ask, in my prayers and discussions, for only those things I would like to see happen, because no man can claim to know what is best for mankind. Wakan Tanka and Grandfather alone know what is best, and this is why, even though I am worried, my attitude is not overcome with fear of the future. I submit always to Wakan Tanka's will. This is not easy, and most people find it impossible, but I have seen the power of Prayer and I have seen God's desires fulfilled. So I pray always that God will give me wisdom to accept his way of doing things. — Frank Fools Crow

Those who live for one another learn that love is the bond of perfect unity. — Frank Fools Crow

When we become hollow bones there is no limit to what the Higher Powers can do in and through us in spiritual things. — Frank Fools Crow

Having pursued this matter of Christian-traditional relationships as far as I have, it might be concluded that the rest of the book is permeated with references to it. That is not the case. All I have wanted to do is to fix in literary cement what amounts to one of the most incredible milestones in Christian church history - a stunning reversal of opinion where Native American religion is concerned. I harbor no illusions that such developments as these will escalate into anything like acceptance by all, or even a majority of, the Christian churches. But it is a strong beginning, and I, together with the Native Americans, am exceedingly grateful for it! Now though, everything that needs to be said about this has been said, and from here on the book is entirely Fools Crow. Among — Thomas E. Mails

Believing people can soar beyond ordinary life. — Frank Fools Crow

Survival of the world depends on our sharing what we have, and working together. If we don't the whole world will die. First the planet, and next the people. — Frank Fools Crow

I marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a barren rascal. I saw him put down the other day with an 80 ordinary fool that has no more brain than a stone. Look you now, he's out of his guard already; unless you laugh and minister occasion to him, he is gagged. I protest I take these wise men, that crow so at these set kind of fools, no better than the fools' zanies. — William Shakespeare