Wednesday Motivational Quotes & Sayings

The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things. — Thomas Aquinas

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible. — Andrew Wyeth

Even if you have done no wrong, no mistake in the last 50 years, remember the mistake you did 51 years ago and repent for it and become humble. — Radhanath Swami

God's love for the biggest sinner is greater than the love of the holiest man for God — Arsenie Boca

And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that. — Eva Ibbotson

Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist. — Jacob Bronowski

I found myself listening to Walter Bjork's fascinating radio program Bible Questionnaire (WFME, Orange, N.J.), and a caller asked where in the Bible one would find the statement "Neither borrower nor lender be." The poor host flipped like mad through his concordance without success. Naturally, since the quote is not from the Bible at all, but from Shakespeare's Hamlet! But it sounded biblical, so caller and host alike attributed it to scripture. Can it have been much more difficult to naively attribute wise sayings to Jesus? — Robert M. Price

Then silence, and stillness, and night were
the universe. — Edgar Allan Poe

The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends ... the basic function of rhetoric [is] the use of words by human agents to form attitudes or to induce actions in other human agents. — Kenneth Burke

The term "starvation diet" refers to 900 calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call that? One word that comes to my mind: "suicide. — Marya Hornbacher

Any innocent pleasure is a real good: there are not so many of them. — Patrick O'Brian

Find the evil in the castle ... But the only truly evil thing in this world is the man ruling it. — Sarah J. Maas