Margaret Calvert Quotes & Sayings

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word. — Martin Luther

The God of love my shepherd is, And he that doth me feed: While he is mine, and I am his, What can I want or need? — George Herbert

Life is other, always there,
further off, beyond you and
beyond me, always on the horizon,
life which unlives us and makes us strangers,
that invents our face and wears it away — Octavio Paz

Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think. — Tennessee Williams

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it. — Aung San Suu Kyi

When you try to do something you've never done before, you risk falling on your face. — Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

It is safer to try to understand the low in the light of the high than the high in the light of the low. In doing the latter one necessarily distorts the high, whereas in doing the former one does not deprive the low of the freedom to reveal itself as fully as what it is. — Leo Strauss

He's solid. "You're fractured." He's hopeful. "You're hopeless." He's always there. "You're half there." He's faithful. "You're so not." He's giving. "You're afraid to give." He's honest. "You lie all the time." He's loving. "You don't know how to love. — Ellen Hopkins

A state of total awakeness. In this state one is not only aware of that which one needs to be aware of in order to survive or to satisfy passionate goals, one is aware of oneself and of the world (people and nature) around one. One sees, not opaquely but clearly, the surface together with its roots. The world becomes fully real; every detail and the details in their configuration and structure become a meaningful unit. It feels as if a veil that had been in front of our eyes permanently - without our recognizing it was there - and had suddenly dropped away. — Erich Fromm

0 true and heavenly grace, without which our own merits are nothing, and our natural gifts of no account! Neither arts nor riches, beauty nor strength, genius nor eloquence have any value in Your eyes, Lord, unless allied to grace. For the gifts of nature are common to good men and bad alike, but grace or love are Your especial gift to those whom You choose, and those who are sealed with this are counted worthy of life everlasting. — Thomas A Kempis

I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he's gonna do tomorrow and I'm just happy to wake up to see who's hanging around. Mick's rock and I'm roll. — Keith Richards

The only power desirable is the grace to pray. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Imagine the greatness this world would know if kindness were as contagious and enduring as the common cold. — Richelle E. Goodrich