Schilf Akademie Quotes & Sayings

Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal life. — Jeremiah Burroughs

There is a false and momentary happiness in self-satisfaction, but it always leads to sorrow because it narrows and deadens our spirit. True happiness is found in unselfish love, a love which increases in proportion as it is shared. There is no end to the sharing of love, and, therefore, the potential happiness of such love is without limit. Infinite sharing is the law of God's inner life. He has made the sharing of ourselves the law of our own being, so that it is in loving others that we best love ourselves. — Thomas Merton

I understand that we're smarter than me.
That's one reason I like the idea of sharing. — Toba Beta

I've learned how to take out my own stitches: all you need is a pair of fingernail clippers & a strong stomach. — Lance Armstrong

We Hoosiers are excessively optimistic about summer. — John Green

I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read. — Wendell H. Ford

What's great is when you're shooting at the same hotel you're living in, you finish shooting, put your stuff down, take an elevator and go to bed. — Jon Turteltaub

I have been there, and still would go; 'T is like a little heaven below. — Isaac Watts

(John Bold said): If an action is the right one, personal feelings must not be allowed to interfere. Of course I greatly like Mr Harding, but that is no reason for failing in my duty to those old men. — Anthony Trollope

But evil is always illusion. It insists on the lie that we can have something for ourselves. This is the sole principle at work in hell. Lucifer chose to believe it; or, since it is unimaginable that he actually could have believed it, then we may say that he chose to pretend it might be. Very well, says Truth, you may pretend this. But the pretense will be, literally, your undoing. It will unmake you. You will have opted for something that is not, namely, a lie. Hell is built of lies. — Thomas Howard