Favorite Quotations, Ideas, and Wisdom Proverbs
All of life is meant to be a spiritual expression of love; our work, worship, meditation, relationships and religion integrate to bring glory and honor to our creator God, who is love.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched; they must be felt with the heart --Helen Keller
Our knowledge of any specific subject is minuscule but our rich legacy of wisdom, tradition, virtue, religion, symbol, experience, and knowledge, though imperfect, is more than adequate for discovering further truth and especially for acting in faith, hope, and love as we allow God to mold our conscience and guide our efforts to serve our neighbors as ourselves.
1. All work is holy that honors and glorifies our creator God
2. A fault which humbles a man is of more use to him than a virtue which puffs him up.
3. A little girl can be sweeter (and badder) oftener than anyone else in the world. She can jitter around, and stomp, and make funny noises that frazzle your nerves, yet just when you open your mouth she stands there demure with that special look in her eyes. A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot. Alan Beck
4. A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. Carl Sandburg
5. A child's hand in yours—what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength. Marjorie Holmes
6. After bread, education is the first need of people (Georges Danton, 1759-1794)
7. A lazy man loves nothing
8. “Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.”
9. A person who doesn't know but knows that he doesn't know is a student; teach him. A person who knows but who doesn't know what he knows is asleep; awaken him. But a person who knows and knows that he knows is wise; follow him." -- Old Asian proverb
10. A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it.--Alistair Cooke
11. A tendency exists to define those we differ or fear by only their weaknesses, demean their motives and thus justify their exploitation and even destruction.
12. A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.--Cullen Hightower
13. A vision must be refined by the fire of implementation to be of value
14. Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.--Dietrich Bonhoeffer
15. “All power is limited by definite boundaries and laws. No power is absolute, infinite, unbridled, arbitrary, and lawless. Every power is bound to laws, right, and equity.” Johannes Althusius (1557–1638)
16. All of life is spiritual, for all is part of God's creation; there is no division between sacred and secular, work and worship, religion and politics. Spirituality is not apart from our daily lives, it is our daily lives. But it is a life with a cutting edge not avoiding the pain or the fear. (Katie Ecclestone et al. 1986: 1)
17. All work and no leisure time of contemplation starves the soul and leads to cutting trees in the wrong forest
18. An imperfect rose is still a rose and imperfect love is still love
19. Jehovah God took the man, and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. Genesis 2:14
20. "And we know that all that happens to us is working for our good if we love God and are fitting into his plans." Rom. 8:28 (LB)
21. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius --- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein
22. After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box." -- Italian proverb
23. A day is lost if one has not laughed." -- French proverb
24. A room without books is like a body without a soul.--Marcus Tullius Cicero
25. Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day. --Booker T. Washington
26. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage. --Lao Tso
27. “Because love cannot be forced, God sovereignty decides to make himself vulnerable to those he loves--God takes the risk that we may not respond to the divine love with love of our own. God risks that we may not love God, other humans and care for the creation as we should.” John Sanders
28. Boys are found everywhere - on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket. Alan Beck
29. By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn (Latin proverb)
30. Children are the wealth of the world (Arab proverb)
31. Convincing yourself does not win an argument.--Robert Half
32. "Conscience is the voice of the soul." -- Polish proverb
33. Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment. --Napoleon Bonaparte
34. “Civilization requires voluntary acceptance and persuasion, not force”
35. Courage is rarely reckless or foolish . . . courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced. --Margaret Truman
36. Creation is a piece of divine self-expression which brings delight. Clark H. Pinnock
37. Created order is the rule, man learns and plays the game, God is the judge
38. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.--Scott Adams
39. "Dance as if no one were watching. Sing as if no one were listening. And live every day as if it were your last." -- Irish proverb
40. "Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way." -- American proverb
41. Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best. Mother Teresa
42. Do not wait for leaders; do it alone -- person to person. Mother Teresa
43. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers--show me yours--show me that it possible--show me your achievement--and the knowledge will give me courage for mine. --Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead.
44. Each of us has a spark in life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.--Kenny Ausubel
45. Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to dark place where it leads. --Erica Jong
46. "Even the highest towers begin from the ground." -- Chinese proverb
47. "Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another." -- Italian proverb
48. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. Bible
49. "Courage is fear that has said its prayers." -- American proverb
50. “Determinism perceived from genetics, environment, astrology, or theology is the enemy of moral responsibility and genuine love”
51. “Failure often teaches more that success”
52. Faith, hope and love. The greatest is love. 1 Cor. 13
53. "Fear less, hope more; whine less, breath more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours." -- Swedish proverb
54. “Fear of failure is fear of learning”
55. “For God so loved the world that He gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." - John 3:16,
56. “For myself, I tell you that I have wagered that God is, that He exists. What bet do you make? How do you wager? “ Pascal
57. "For the birds that cannot soar, God has provided low branches." -- Turkish proverb
58. Go to the ant, thou sluggard; Consider her ways, and be wise: Proverbs 6:6
59. God created mankind in his image and likeness, his image is a gift, his likeness a goal
60. Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime (Chinese proverb)
61. "God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest." -- Swedish proverb
62. “God has no hidden agenda; creation, revelation, and the Church proclaim that God loves his self and all mankind and declares his creation good. God encourages but does not force us to do likewise”
63. “God is love” John 4:16“
64. Good questions outrank easy answers.--Paul A. Samuelson
65. Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments.” William Penn (1644–1718)
66. “He (God) asks, do you love me? Our whole life is an answer to that question. At every point in our journey is an opportunity to say yes or no. C. Pinnock
67. "He that would be a leader must be a bridge." -- Welsh proverb
68. “He who acts against his conscience loses his soul.” John Henry Newman (1801–1890)
69. "He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning." -- Danish proverb
70. "He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him." -- Dutch proverb
71. Hope and trust are the premise of responsible activity and are nurtured in the inner sanctity of conscience where “man is alone with God” and thus perceives he is not alone amid the enigmas of existence, for he is surrounded by the love of the Creator! Pope John Paul II
72. A man who thinks he knows all absolutely will never be wise
73. False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.--Christian N. Bovee
74. Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you--William Arthur Ward
75. Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.--Mark Twain. God Grant Me The Serenity To Accept The Things I Cannot Change, The Courage To Change the Things I Can And The Wisdom To Know The Difference --Serenity Prayer
79. Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a [person] does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses their intelligence. --Albert Einstein
80. Greater truth is discovered in love than all the scientific discovery of all time
81. "He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes." -- Chinese proverb
82. "He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument." -- Chinese proverb
83. History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. --B. C. Forbes
84. History is not the playing out of a timeless fixed decree but a theater where the divine purposes are being worked out by the resourcefulness of God in dealing with the surprises of a significant creation. Clark H. Pinnock
85. “I am a democrat because I believe in the Fall of Man ... Mankind is so fallen that no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his fellows.” C. S. Lewis (1898–1963)
86. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.--Thomas A. Edison
87. I consider myself worth nothing to me; my only ail is to finish the race and complete the task the lord has given me – the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace. Paul the Apostle TNIV
88. “If you attain to perfect self forgetfulness in the love of your neighbor, then you will believe without doubts and no doubt can possibly enter your soul” Fr. Zosima in Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov
89. "In nothing has the church so lost her hold on reality as in her failure to understand and respect the secular vocation” Dorothy Sayers
90. “I shall - drink to the Pope if you please – still to Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards” John Henry Newman
91. If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. Mother Teresa
92. If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa
93. "Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune." -- Italian proverb
94. “In Christ, God gave himself a human heart” C. Pinnock
95. In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic, a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts, an enabler rather than a reformer. --H. Norman Wright and Gary J. Oliver
96. In work, human beings are called to “imitate God.” Laborem Exercens, John Paul II
97. It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.--Whitney Young, JR.
98. It is better to train ten people, than to do the work of ten people. But it is harder. - Moody
99. It is easy to have a balanced personality. Just forget your troubles as easily as you do your blessings.
100. It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. - Benjamin Disraeli
101. It is not how much we do, but how much love we put into doing it. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving. Mother Teresa
102. It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. - Epictetus
103. Generally self imposed discomfort of discipline, thrift, education, and work brings freedom from the greater strictures imposed externally.
104. It isn’t so much what you don’t know, but what you know that isn’t so that hurts you.
105. It is said that for money you can have everything, but you cannot. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; knowledge but not wisdom; glitter, but not beauty; fun, but not joy; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; leisure, but not peace. You can have the husk of everything for money, but not the kernel. - Arne Garborg
106. It is your attitude and not your aptitude that determines your altitude. - Zig Zigler
107. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa
108. Love of self is not enough to drive one to the greatness of courage and commitment
109. "Laws without penalties are like bells without clappers." -- Czech proverb
110. Lazy and fearful people would rather die than let reality intrude into their fantasy world
111. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: Kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. Mother Teresa
112. “Liberty has never come from the government; it has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.” (Woodrow Wilson)
113. Life is a dance and Love is the music
114. “Lord Acton...understood well the relationship between the inner order of the soul and the outer order of the commonwealth, and the gulf separating the liberty of appetite (libido) from a willed and reasoned liberty (voluntas).” Russell Kirk (1918–1994)
115. Love doesn't make the world go around; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.--Franklin P. Jones
116. Love of self and others drives the greatest exploits
117. "Luck never gives; it only lends." -- Swedish proverb
118. Lust, the Pope (John Paul II) suggests, is the opposite of true attraction. True attraction desires the other’s good through the gift of myself; lust desires my own transitory pleasure through the use (and even abuse) of the other. The woman at whom man gazes lustfully s the object, not a person, and sex is reduced to a utilitarian means to satisfy a “need.” This “adultery of the heart” can even take place within marriage—not because the object of a man’s lust is not his wife, but because the lustful look turns a wife into an object and shatters the communication of persons. Witness to Hope by George Weigel
119. “Man is to be honored, not only for virtue, but also for divine representations of other good things: in a word, because one man before another beareth the image of something that is in God.” William Perkins (1558–1602)
120. "Marriage is a covered dish." -- Swiss proverb
121. “Most important decisions are based on hypothesis or theories derived from hope and supported by faith, experience and limited knowledge”
122. “Most gracious God, we humbly beseech thee for thy holy Catholic Church. Fill it with all truth; in all truth with all peace. Where it is corrupt, purify it; where it is in error, direct it; where in anything is amiss, reform it. Where it is right, strengthen and confirm it; where it is in want, furnish it; where it is divided and rent asunder, make it whole again; through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Collect
123. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.--Jim Ryan
124. My last desire, children, is that the love of Our Lord dwell in you so that it will change you into so many apostles, zealous for His glory. You will be the treasure of your families, whom you will make happy by your good conduct. -- Phil. ii. 10-11
125. "No branch is better than its trunk." -- Japanese proverb
126. “No genius is required to see clearly that an unhampered market economy best fulfills the peaceful wants and ambitions of everyone involved. Each best serves himself by serving others, producing his own specialty, trading for theirs.” Leonard E. Read (1898–1983)
127. “None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.” John Milton
128. Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage. The way in which power works is a mystery. --Albert Schweitzer (01/14/1875-1965)
129. Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement --George Adams
130. On-the-job evangelism at the expense of true relationship is dehumanizing and offensive to God. Pete Hammond
131. One of the greatest proofs there is a God is that we are still here
132. "Only love gives us the taste of eternity." -- Jewish proverb
133. "Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty." -- Sicilian proverb
134. “Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.” Friedrich August von Hayek (1899–1992)
135. Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny. --Peter Senge
136. "Piety is no substitute for technique." Etienne Gilson
137. “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely” Lord Acton
138. "Pride is the mask of one's own faults." -- Jewish proverb
139. “Risk is the means of learning”
140. "Shared joy is double joy and shared sorrow is half sorrow." -- Swedish proverb
141. "Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors." -- African proverb
142. “The sage can rejoice in a single lily in a field of weeds while others despair of a few weeds in a field of lilies”
143. Self centered laziness transfers blame, evil motives and responsibility to others
144. Spoil your husband, but don't spoil your children—that are my philosophy. Louise Sevier Giddings Currey
145. Stress often arises from our unwillingness to acknowledge and manage what is in fact reality
146. "Talking about bulls is not the same as facing them in the ring." -- Mexican proverb
147. To live is to change, and to be perfect is to change often. John Henry Newman
148. To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others. Pope John Paul II
149. "Tell me whom you love, and I'll tell you who you are." -- Creole proverb
150. The ability to love authentically, not great intellectual capacity, constitutes the deepest part of a personality. It is no accident yhat the greatest commandment is to love.
151. The beginning is the most important part of the work.--Plato
152. "The best gifts are those which expect no return." -- Norwegian proverb
153. The best mirror is a friend's eye." -- Gaelic proverb
154. "The best way to get praise is to die." -- Italian proverb
155. "The buyer has need of a hundred eyes, the seller of but one." -- Italian proverb
156. The church of the living God is the pillar and bulwark of the truth [1] Tim. 3:15
157. “The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate, because his power consists only in outward force; but true and saving religion consists in the inward persuasion of the mind, without which nothing can be acceptable to God.” John Locke (1632–1704)
158. The celebration of the eternal Eucharistic sacrifice of God’s only son in the communion with all present and departed saints is our most significant worship – The Revelation of John Ch. 4
159. The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved -- they are Jesus in disguise. Mother Teresa
160. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.--Winston Churchill
161. “The end never justifies the means, the means must be justified in itself”
162. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete failure of the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. Mark Skousen
163. “The value of man devolves into the pragmatic utilitarian benefit to others, if dignity is not from God”
164. "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night reveals knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world." (Psalm 19:1-4).
165. "The man who can not dance thinks the band is no good." -- Polish proverb
166. The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Theodore M. Hesburgh
167. “The notion of sin and repentance waned with the belief in authority. Men thought they could make good the evil they did.” — Lord Acton
168. "... the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or to forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because in the opinions of others to do so would be wise or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil in case he do otherwise."-- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty [1859]
169. The “original sin” is to violate the Law of Gift” built into us, to turn the other into an object, a thing to be used. Sin enters the world as a corruption of self giving, which is motivated by love. Pope Paul II
170. "The past remembered is a good guide for the future." -- Chinese proverb
171. "The person who pursues revenge should dig two graves." -- English proverb
172. "The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it." -- Chinese proverb
173. "The pillar of the world is hope." -- Nigerian proverb
174. The point is……. To demonstrate that the Church, in the Gospel, had a more compelling answer to the perennial questions of human life than the purveyors of the official state ideology. Pope John Paul II
175. The righteous say little and do much." -- Jewish proverb
176. The security we crave would teach us to rest our hearts in this world and pose an obstacle to our return to God. . Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home. --C. S. Lewis
177. "The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears." -- Native American proverb
178. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement. --Charles Schwab
179. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.--Mahatma Gandhi
180. "The weaker the argument, the stronger the words." -- American proverb
181. The words of God are not like the oak leaf which dies and falls to the earth, but like the pine tree which stays green forever." -- Native American proverb
182. "The work praises the man." -- Irish proverb
183. The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends." -- Persian proverb
184. There are four things which are little upon the earth, But they are exceeding wise: 25The ants are a people not strong, Yet they provide their food in the summer; 26The conies are but a feeble folk, Yet make they their houses in the rocks; 27The locusts have no king, Yet go they forth all of them by bands; 28The lizard taketh hold with her hands, Yet is she in kings’ palaces. Proverbs 30:24
185. "There are forty kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense." -- African proverb
186. “There are a thousand complex reasons for divorce but only one reason, a love covenant, for a lifetime relationship“
187. “There is far more unknown than known about any item or subject, but more important is faith, hope, and love
188. "There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience." -- French proverb
189. It is for the love of others that great sacrifices are endured and greatness realized, love of only self makes the stress of life unbearable
190. Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day.--Sanskrit Proverb
191. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ “This is the great and foremost commandment. “The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ “On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.” Jesus
192. Self-giving is the way to self-fulfillment
193. There was no dividing life up into the serious and the frivolous, the true and unimportant. The contemporary tendency to fragment life, or to reduce the question of truth to a secondary issue, had to be resisted. “The method of the Kingdom of God is the method of truth.” Because of that “man must be prepared to agree with reality in its totality. Karol Wojtyla
194. The highest result of education is tolerance (Helen Keller, 1880-1968)
195. To have courage for whatever comes in life-everything lies in that --Mother Teresa
196. To love means wishing the others welfare, to offer oneself for the good of the other. Pope John Paul II
197. "Those who do not read are no better off than those who can not." -- Chinese proverb
198. "Those who wish to shine always find a song." -- Swedish proverb
199. "To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is." -- Chinese proverb
200. True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbor's faults, never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues. -- St Therese of Lisieux
201. "True Courage is not the ABSENCE of fear, but the MASTERY of fear." Mark Twain
202. "Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare." -- Japanese proverb
203. "We are God's workmanship (masterpiece), created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." St Paul
204. "We judge others by their acts, but ourselves by our intentions." -- American proverb
205. “We often are more interested in defending our proposition than learning the truth”
206. We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. Mother Teresa
207. "Well done is better than well said." -- New England proverb
208. What fine edification a soul gives who, when greeted with scorn, answers gently to conciliate the offensive individual; or perhaps makes no reply at all, nor complains to others, but maintains a placid expression and shows no bitterness. We are asserting that because we love God, we will not allow anyone to make us respond to an offense in a non-Christian way. -- St. Alphonsus Liguori
209. Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage. --Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
210. "Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn." -- Greek proverb
211. Who is the greatest, the fearless warrior or the sedentary daydreamer who created a better spear point?
212. "Whoever enjoys his life is doing the Creator's will."-- Jewish proverb
213. “Why?” the question of every moral code
214. Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.--Aristotle
215. “Without God, all things are permitted” Dostoevsky
216. Wojtyla’s essential point was that the priest’s duty to help make God present in the world was not satisfied by his daily celebration of the Mass. In addition, “the duty of the priest is to live with people, everywhere they are, to be with them in everything but sin.” George Weigel in “Witness to Hope
217. "Words should be weighed and not counted." -- Yiddish proverb
218. Work is about who we are, as well as what we do and produce. Whether they be agricultural, industrial, post-industrial, or artistic laborers, workers are all persons, which means the work, properly understood, human beings are always becoming more, not just making more. This spiritual and moral character—this subjectivity” – gives work its genuine value and gives workers their specific dignity. Laborem Exersens , John Paul II
219. "Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow." -- Swedish proverb
220. "Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble." -- French proverb
221. “You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: an allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power” John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973)
222. "You can outdistance that which is running after you but not what is running inside you." -- Rwandan proverb
223. "You never miss the water till the well has run dry." -- Irish proverb
224. "You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind." -- Irish proverb
225. “Your value is simply your benefit to me if there is no God.”