Ofherding Quotes & Sayings

A pleasant companion is as good as a coach. — Jonathan Swift

The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men. — John Owen

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people. — Daniel Berrigan

God out of His own will expresses and manifests Himself in the human body and not to be obtained by self-exertion. The question may rise what others will do? The answer is the life of Jesus and Sri Ramkrishna. Others will lead their lives according to the instructions as given to them by their own lives. - Sri Jibankrishna (Diamond) — Jibankrishna

You can raise her up a lady but there's one thing you just can't avoid ... — Trace Adkins

The mess we are making of our planet is caused by our own greed, hatred, and delusion. Aside from the existential afflictions of aging, death, and at least some of the illnesses, every instance we see of human misery, injustice, affliction. or sufficient and pain will, upon sufficient and sometimes even cursory investigation, be shown to be rooted in the attachment, aversion, or ignorance of some person or some group of people together. — Andrew Olendzki

And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated. — Michael Tilson Thomas

A sincere acquaintance with ourselves teaches us humility; and from humility springs that benevolence which compassionates the transgressors we condemn, and prevents the punishments we inflict from themselves partaking of crime, in being rather the wreakings of revenge than the chastisements of virtue. — Jane Porter

In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable. — Dan Savage

I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith. — Thomas S. Monson

I had never 'taken a cutting' before ... Do you realize that the whole thing is miraculous? It is exactly as though you were to cut off your wife's leg, stick it in the lawn, and be greeted on the following day by an entirely new woman, sprung from the leg, advancing across the lawn to meet you. — Beverley Nichols