Matabagka Quotes & Sayings

If we want to keep the old language, still using such terms as "spiritual" and "material," the spiritual must mean "the indefinable," that which, because it is living, must ever escape the framework of any fixed form. Matter is spirit named. After all this, the brain deserves a word for itself! For the brain, including its reasoning and calculating centers, is a part and product of the body. It is as natural as the heart and stomach, and, rightly used, is anything but an enemy of man. But to be used rightly it must be put in its place, for the brain is made for man, not man for his brain. In other words, the function of the brain is to serve the present and the real, not to send man chasing wildly after the phantom of the future. — Alan W. Watts

I can see that I give my audience something. I can see it in their eyes, and they say 'Thank you' a lot. You realize you are doing something that means something to people. — Wes Craven

She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above. — Ovid

All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for a few moments in the life of the galaxy. When it was over, the host of the planetary systems still lived on, with here and there a casualty, and here and there among the stars a new planetary birth, and here and there a fresh disaster. — Olaf Stapledon

Retirement is not the goal of a surrendered life, because it competes with God for the primary attention of our lives. — Rick Warren

Say!
In the dark?
Here in the dark!
Would you, could you, in the dark? — Dr. Seuss

Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like. — C.S. Lewis

A man is not entitled to be called a father merely because he once had a well-timed spasm of the loins. — Lisa Kleypas

I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule. — Herman Wouk

When you meet the right person, it's like nothing else - nobody else. No one in your past ever mattered. — Melissa De La Cruz

Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept. — Winston Churchill

The experiences of men who walked with God in olden times agree to teach that the Lord cannot fully bless the a man until He has first conquered him. The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him. — A.W. Tozer