Rudyard Kipling Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone's Christmas.
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Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?
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Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.
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I liked you better when you were this timid little kid. What happened?” “I started living with you guys.” “Oh, right.
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What I saw was more than I could stand. The noise I heard had been made by Little Ann. All her life she had slept by Old Dan's side. And although he was dead, she had left the doghouse, had come back to the porch, and snuggled up by his side.
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Hip is the knowledge and Hop is the movement.
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Misfits need a place to get away, too. All that trying to fit in is exhausting.
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Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
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Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played the organ.
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I think the message of peace is for everyone.
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What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.
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Successful families try to work together toward solutions instead of resorting to criticism and contention.
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Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.
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I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be.
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God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.
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The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
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Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints.
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It is not the constant thought of their sins, but the vision of the holiness of God that makes the saints aware of their own sinfulness.
