Roger Of Taize Quotes & Sayings

I've had hundreds of challenges at Traveller gatherings. They get a few beers in them, and they start thinking they are Tyson or Ali: throwing punches, swearing, and jumping around with their big fat bellies. I'd love to knock a few of them out. — Tyson Fury

Grief's not like a cancer, doesn't go when the operation's done and the darkness is out. It's a knife wound. Take out the blade and you still go the bleeding, wait long enough, and it turns to a scar, but it's always with you the rest of your life. — Barney Norris

group whose remarkably swift adaptation to slaveholding put them quickly into the front ranks of wealthy and powerful slaveholders. Scottish settlement took two distinct forms: Highlanders re-established their agricultural economy in the New World and built upon their experience as herdsmen to make their way into the slaveholding class. By contrast, the commercial activity of the Lowland Scots contributed incalculably to the expansion of slavery across the southern frontier before the Revolution. — James Oakes

Mr Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking people to stay with him — Daisy Ashford

When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee. — Anonymous

One of the the loveliest lines I have ever read comes from Brother Roger, the Prior of the Protestant monks of Taize, France: 'Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.' It is still difficult for me to read these words without tears filling my eyes. It is wonderful. — Brennan Manning

My dream is to save them from nature. — Christian Dior

A room without boooks like a body without soul — Roger Of Taize

And it seems people should not build houses anymore
it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floors
under electric lights
without shades;
it seems there is a lot to forget
and a lot not to do
and in drugstores, markets, bars,
the people are tired, they do not want to move, and I stand there at night
and look through this house and the house does not want to be built — Charles Bukowski

The Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth His secret unto His servants and prophets." While "the secret things belong unto the Lord our God," "those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever." Amos 3:7; Deuteronomy 29:29. God has given these things to us, and His blessing will attend the reverent, prayerful study of the prophetic scriptures. As — Ellen G. White

Hide in plain sight, that was the way out here. He would learn something from that. — C.J. Box

Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths — Will Durant

I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me. — William Herschel

It's age. It makes misers of us," he said dolefully. "Counting out our lives in small change from a thinning purse. — Peter Maughan