Polycrates Ring Quotes & Sayings

There is a very important connection between the Church's worldview and the Church's hymns. If your heart and mouth are filled with songs of victory, you will tend to have an eschatology of dominion; if, instead, your songs are fearful, expressing a longing for escape-or if they are weak, childish ditties-your worldview and expectations will be escapist and childish. Historically, the basic hymnbook for the Church has been the Book of Psalms. The largest book of the Bible is the Book of Psalms, and God providentially placed it right in the middle of the Bible, so that we couldn't miss it! Yet how many churches use the Psalms in musical worship? It is noteworthy that the Church's abandonment of dominion eschatology coincided with the Church's abandonment of the Psalms. — David H. Chilton

Upon retiring, sleep as if you had entered your last sleep. Upon awakening, leave your bed behind you instantly as if you had cast away a pair of old shoes. — Soyen Shaku

Like your sweet, affectionate house cat, Alice Dahl is easy to underestimate. It's not until the songbirds in the yard show up eviscerated on the front porch that you realize you should've kept that bell collar on her - because those poor birds never even saw her coming. — Elle Lothlorien

My soul,
how will I recognize you if we meet? — Anne Stevenson

No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself. — Mark Twain

She turned just in time to seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight. — Mark Twain

Impious! forbear thus the first general hail. To disappoint, Increase and multiply, To shed thy blossoms thro' the desert air, And sow thy perish'd offspring in the winds. — John Armstrong

When I get to heaven one day, I'm going to ask God how it's possible that time moves so much quicker on the weekends than on school days. — Jenny B. Jones

Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious. — Rumi