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Matthew 10:8 :: New American Standard Bible (NASB)
15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable,
and disobedient, and unto every good work
reprobate.
- Titus 1:15-16 ::
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6 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
7 In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness,
gravity, sincerity,
8 Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
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Teaching us that, denying
ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
- Titus 2:6-8, 12
:: King James Version (KJV)
2 To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all
meekness unto all men.
3 For WE OURSELVES also were sometimes foolish,
disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and
envy, hateful, and hating one another.
8 This
is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that
they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things
are good and profitable unto men.
9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
10 A man that is an heretick
after the first and second admonition reject;
11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
- Titus 3:2-3, 8-11
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The woman that deliberates is lost.
-
The most incomprehensible thing about
the world is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein.
The Gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Those things which are God’s are not subject to the imperial power.
- Ambrose of
The books that everybody admires are
those nobody reads.
- Anatole
France.
A good sentence or a thing well said, is always in season.
-
Anonymous.
Beauty is only skin deep.
-
Anonymous.
If power corrupts, absolute power
corrupts absolutely.
-
Anonymous.
If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at
all.
-
Anonymous.
Old is Gold.
-
Anonymous.
The invisible hand is weak and pitiful
if the iron fist isn't behind it.
-
Anonymous.
The world is transformed with words,
one person at a time.
- Anonymous.
Truth can wait, it is used to it.
- Anonymous.
Your personality is fueled by the fascination you
feel for life.
- Anonymous.
Dignity consists not in possessing
honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
-
Aristotle
In the desert of the heart, let the healing
fountain start;
In the prison of his days, teach the
free man how to praise.
- Auden,
W. H.
In my travels, I once saw a sign called
"The Two Men at Law". One of them was painted on one side, in a
melancholy posture, all in rags with this scroll:
"I have lost my cause." The other was drawn capering
for joy, on the other side, with these words: "I have gained my suit". But he was stark naked.
- Benjamin Franklin.
No Religion Higher Than Truth.
- Blavatsky
H. P.
Men occasionally stumble over the
truth, but most of them pick themselves up and
hurry off as if nothing happened.
-
Churchill.
An appeaser,
feeds the crocodile in the hope that it will eat him last.
-
Churchill.
History repeats itself. That's one of
the things wrong with history.
- Clarence Darrow.
Good men and bad men differ from each other
in their natures. Bad men do not recognize a sinful act as sinful; if its sinfulness is
brought to their attention, they do not cease doing it and do not like to have
anyone inform them of their sinful acts. Wise men are sensitive to right and wrong; they cease doing
anything as soon as they see that it is wrong; they are grateful to anyone who
calls their attention to such wrong acts.
- Dalai Lama, The
In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the
best teacher.
- Dalai Lama
It is wise not to trust something that
has deceived us once before.
- Descartes,
Meditation I, p.12.
When a man becomes untractable and inaccessible by fierceness and pride, then vituperation
comes upon him.
- Donne.
Having the critics
praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
- Eli Wallach.
Even in friendly territory a fortified camp
should be set up;
a general should never
have to say 'I did not expect it.'
- The Emperor Maurice,
The Strategikon, c. 600 AD
By the laws of
- Entick
v. Carrington (1765).
Just as one need not seek outside
oneself for the light, so one need not seek outside one's own small personal
existence for the greater, unlimited, opportunity. With this realization comes
the final death of greed, of hating, of fanaticism, of self-satisfaction, and
of stupidity.
- Ernest Wood
Uncover your heart and you will uncover
God and find yourself.
-
Father Zlatko Sudac.
"Girls don't like boys
Girls like cars and
money"
- Good Charlotte, "Boys and Girls"
Love is begot by fancy.
- Granville.
Faith of consciousness is
freedom
Faith of feeling is
weakness
Faith of body is stupidity.
Love of consciousness
evokes the same in response
Love of feeling evokes the
opposite
Love of the body depends
only on type and polarity.
Hope of consciousness is
strength
Hope of feeling is slavery
Hope of body is disease.
- Gurdjieff
When we come to parts
too small for our senses, our ideas of these little bodies become obscure and
indistinct.
-
A people who mean to be their own
governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.
- James Madison.
Chastity is either abstinence or
continence: abstinence is that of virgins or widows; continence, that of married persons.
- Jer.
Taylor.
Some persons . . . change their
propositions according as their temporal necessities or advantages do turn.
- Jer.
Taylor.
One book opens another.
- C.G. Jung.
The right to be left alone – the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by a free people
-
Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v.
Let him who sins when drunk be punished
when sober.
- Kendrick v.
The Buddha taught Dhamma
to his followers out of compassion, he taught them Dhamma for their benefit and happiness. When they had
listened to the Dhamma they could ponder over it and put it into practice. The Buddha taught
about the ill effects of anger. Anger leads to
different kinds of suffering for the person who is angry, but the person to
whom anger is directed does not have to suffer from it if he does not have anger
himself.
- Khun
Sujin Boriharnwanaket.
Immediately after you stand on the peak
of a mountain you step forward and begin to climb a
higher mountain which is down below.
- Kobun
Chino Roshi.
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to
virtue.
- La Rochefoucauld. (Trans.)
When you're the first person whose
beliefs are different from what everyone else believes, you're basically
saying, 'I'm right, and everyone else is wrong.' That's a very unpleasant
position to be in. It's at once exhilarating and at the same time an invitation
to be attacked.
- Larry Ellison, CEO,
Oracle
The abstinence from a present pleasure that
offers itself is a pain, nay, oftentimes, a very great one.
- Locke.
The manner of doing is more consequence than the thing done, and upon that depends the satisfaction or disgust wherewith it is
received.
- Locke.
Enmity can hardly be more annoying than
querulous, jealous, exacting fondness.
- Macaulay.
When in despair I remember that all through history the way of truth and
love has always won; there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall.
- Mahatma Gandhi.
To slight a single human being, is to
slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him,
the whole world.
- Mahatma Gandhi.
Never doubt that a small group of
thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it‘s the only thing
that ever has.
- Margaret Mead.
There is nothing hid which shall not be
manifested.
- Mark iv. 22.
The work of the teacher is to arouse in
the student a deep and lively interest in the things that should be learned.
-
Mortimer Adler.
After an adjournment all things
continue as they were at the adjournment; whereas, after a prorogation, bill
introduced and nut passed are as if they had never been begun at all.
- Mozley
& W.
Contrary to popular belief,
conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest
of empires.... But what history really shows is that today's empire is
tomorrow's ashes, that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to
acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of
sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to
repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit.
- Mumia
Abu-Jamal
Between men and women there is no
friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no
friendship.
- Oscar Wilde.
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde.
Always humble yourself lovingly before
God and man, because God speaks to those who are truly humble of heart, and
enriches them with His gifts.
- Padre Pio.
"Vanity, is the son of pride, and
is even more malignant than its mother. Have you ever seen a field of ripe
corn? Some ears are tall; others are bent to the ground. Try taking the
tallest, the proudest ones, and you will see that they are empty; but it you
take the smallest, the humblest ones, they are laden with seeds. From this you
can see that vanity is empty."
- Padre Pio.
Context of the saying/The Environment/Surroundings:
To indicate how strict Padre Pio was in hearing confessions.
(Reference: Padre Pio
on Women's Dress.)
Of the portents recorded in ancient
tales many did happen and will happen again.
- Plato, 427-347 BC,
Statesman 268e
They truly are great who
testify to the truth in them and refuse to compromise. Whatever the cost…
- Dr. S Radhakrishnan
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring
you peace but the triumph of principles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Hypocrisy
is the necessary burden of villainy.
- Rambler.
Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man.
- Rambler.
When Fate could not destroy a great man, it sent him disciples
in revenge.
- Rennin.
The law is a causeway upon which, so long as he keeps to it, a
citizen may walk safely.
- Robert Bolt.
Never go to the law for simple vengeance. Redress, yes. Vengeance, no.
- Robertson Davies.
How did such men come to their strange position, on the edge of
freedom? Their most obvious characteristic is their intense desire to see
objectively - even themselves.
- Rodney Collin, The
Theory of Eternal Life
Neither are God's methods or intentions
different in his dispensations to each private man.
-
Age is a state of mind.
- Roman Polanski, Polish film director
Save me, O God, from those
who think that I am something of value.
- Saint Anthony the Great.
Devotion is the product of the Dravida country.
-
Saint Kabir of
Those persons who criticize and vilify
you – keep them near to yourself, even in your very house, and they will purify
your mind without the addition of water and soap.
-
Saint Kabir
No one was ever yet a great poet,
without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy
of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
- Samuel Taylor
Coleridge.
Every degree of obstinacy in youth is
one step to rebellion.
- South.
But true it is, that when the oil is
spent The light goes out, and wick is
thrown away.
- Spenser.
That which we call the Hindu religion
is really the Eternal religion,
because it embraces all
others.
- Sri Aurobindo.
Owe no man anything.
-
Feel, my children, feel. Feel for the poor, and
the down-trodden.
The aristocracy of
- Swift.
The troubles of age were intended . . . to
wean us gradually from our fondness of life.
- Swift.
Can the
Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots?
- The Bible, Prophet Jeremiah to the
men of
A danger foreseen is half avoided.
-
Thomas Fuller.
Perhaps the sentiments contained in the
following pages are not sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor;
a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance
of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence
of custom. But tumult soon subsides. Time makes more
converts than reason.
-
Thomas Paine, in “Common Sense”.
Thus spake Peter, as
a man inebriate and made drunken with the sweetness of this vision, not knowing what he said.
- Udall.
Let all the laws be clear, uniform and
precise. To interpret laws is almost always to corrupt them.
- Voltaire.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
- Voltaire
Gandhi
has educated his people as no man before in their history, to the evils of untouchability, child marriage, unmarriageable widows, etc. We have in him the astonishing phenomenon of
a revolution led by a
saint.
- Will Durant
Everybody is ignorant, only on different
subjects.
- Will Rogers.
All man’s miseries derive from not being able
to sit quietly in a room alone.
-
William Blake.
The attempt to make God just in the eyes of sinful
men will always lead to error. -
Pastor William L. Brown.
As with age his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers.
- William Shakespeare.
Be thou as chaste as ice, as
pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
- William Shakespeare.
calumny
n.
Hasty marriage seldom proveth
well.
- William Shakespeare.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt but,
being seasoned with a
gracious voice, obscures
the show of evil.
- William Shakespeare, in “Merchant of
Indistinct as water is in water.
- William Shakespeare.
Scorn at first makes after love the
more.
-
William Shakespeare.
The law hath not been dead, though it
hath slept.
-
William Shakespeare.
We must not make a scarecrow of the law; setting it up to fear
the birds of prey and let it keep one shape till custom make it
their perch and not their terror.
- William Shakespeare.
Wean them from themselves.
- William Shakespeare.
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
-
William Shakespeare.
The highest Truth is without image. If there
were no image at all, however, there would be no way for Truth to be
manifested. The highest Principle is without words. But if there were not words
at all, how could Principle possibly be revealed?
- Inscription on a
stone figure of Buddha, dated 746
First year, they scare you to death. Second
year, they work you to death. Third year, they bore you to death.
- Old law school
adage.
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“Thou belongest to That Which Is Undying, and not merely to
time alone,” murmured the Sphinx, breaking its muteness at last. “Thou art eternal, and not merely of the vanishing flesh. The soul in man cannot be killed, cannot die. It waits, shroud-wrapped, in thy heart, as I waited, sand-wrapped, in thy world. Know thyself, O mortal! For there is One within thee, as in all men, that comes
and stands at the bar and bears witness that there IS a God!”
(Reference: Brunton, Paul. (1962) A Search
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