Svendsgaard Lodge Quotes & Sayings

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case. — Erin Morgenstern

blue riding breeches, who were swarming near the bridge, and then at what was approaching — Leo Tolstoy

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I don't want to wake up and find you're not really here, he whispered, not yet opening his eyes. — Kitty French

If someone tells you a lie, they're not telling you the truth, but they are telling you something. It just takes longer to figure out what. — Margot Livesey

Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy. — Aristotle.

Undesirable things that man can alter (e.g., his weight), he alters. Those that he cannot (e.g., his height), he calls the will of God. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Soon you'll be ashes, or bones. A mere name, at most - and even that is just a sound, an echo. The things we want in life are empty, stale, and trivial. Dogs snarling at each other. Quarreling children - laughing and then bursting into tears a moment later. — Anonymous

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death. — Charles Caleb Colton

In his person, life, death and resurrection, Jesus Christ is the 'form of God'. As presented in the New Testament writings, the words, actions and sufferings of Jesus form an aesthetic unity, held together by the 'style' of unconditional love. Love is always beautiful, because it expresses the self-diffusiveness of being, and so is touched by being's radiance, the pulchrum. But the unconditional, gracious, sacrificial love of Jesus Christ expresses not just the mystery of being - finite being - but the mystery of the Source of being, the transcendent communion of love which we call the Trinity.25 Thus through the Gestalt Christi, the love which God is shines through to the world. This is Balthasar's basic intuition. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence. — John Dryden

The final philosophy is the ontology of God. — Kedar Joshi

I can see clouds a thousand miles away, hear ancient music in the pines. — Ikkyu

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements. — George W. S. Trow

Okay," I said. His brow furrowed. "Okay what?" I licked my lips. "Kiss me," I said. — Alicia Thompson