Thursday, July 23, 2009

Apples Of Gold

 
 

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Love


Scientists know only what love does. Love,
properly applied, could virtually empty our
asylums, our prisons, our hospitals. Love is the
touchstone of psychiatric treatment. Love can
be fostered, extended, used to subjugate hate
and thus cure diseases. More and more
clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology,
sociology, history, economics, psychology, the plain
common sense, the necessary mandate of
survival----that we love our neighbors as ourselves---
is being confirmed and reaffirmed. Christ
gave us only one commandment----Love.....
Now to the laboratory with love!


Where love is, there God is.

To love is virtually to know; to know is not
virtually to love.

Real friends are those who, when you've made
a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've
done a permanent job.


Love


We may give without loving, but we
cannot love without giving.

Work is love made visible.

It also takes two to make up after a quarrel.

Faults are thick when love is thin.

To love life through labor is to be intimate
with life's inmost secret.

Do not judge your friend until you stand
in his place.

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship,
and he who plants kindness gathers love.

You shall judge a man by his foes as well
as by his friends.

Adolescence is the age at which children
stop asking questions because they know
all the answers.

Except in occasional emergencies there is
not much that one man can do for another,
other than to help him to help himself.

The door to the human heart can be
opened only from the inside.

Friendship is to be purchased only
by friendship.

Let us be the first to give a friendly sign,
to nod first, smile first, speak first, and---
if such a thing is necessary---forgive first.

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Love


The light of friendship is like the light of
phosphorus, seen when all around is dark.


I did a favor yesterday,
A kindly little deed....
And then I called to all the world
To stop and look and heed.
They stopped and looked and flattered me
In words I could not trust,
And when the world had gone away
My good deed turned to dust.

A very tiny courtesy
I found to do today;
'Twas quickly done, with none to see,
And then I ran away....
But someone must have witnessed it,
For---truly I declare---
As I sped back the stony path
Roses were blooming there!


Restraint without love is barbarity.
Love without restraint commits suicide.

For we must share if we would keep
That blessin from above;
Ceasing to give, we cease to have,
Such is the law of love.

If a single man achieves the highest kind
of love, it will be sufficient to neutralize
the hate of millions.

Love cannot be wasted. It makes no
difference where it is bestowed, it always
Brings in big returns.

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Love


God pardons like a mother, who kisses the
offense into everlasting forgetfulness.

To handle yourself, use your head;
To handle others, use your heart.

Measure your life by loss instead of gain;
not by the wine drunk, but in the wine
poured forth, for love's strength
stands in love's sacrifice; and who suffers
most has most to give.

The only safe and sure way to destroy an
enemy is to make him your friend.

Are you lonely, O my brother?
Share your little with another!
Stretch a hand to one unfriended,
And your loneliness is ended.

The only greatness is unselfish love.

Return to him who does you wrong your purest
love, and he wil cease from doing wrong; for
love will purify the heart of him who is beloved
as truly as it purifies the heart of him who loves.

Creation of woman from the rib of man:
She was not made of his head to top him;
nor out of his feet to be trampled upon
by him; but out of his side to be equal
with him; under his arm, to be protected;
and near his heart to be beloved.

A foreigner is a friend I haven't met yet.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

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Love


It is only the forgiving who are qualified
to receive forgiveness.

The father is the head of the house---
The mother is the heart of the house.

The love you liberate in your work
is the love you keep.

How seldom we weigh our neighbor in
the same balance with ourselves.

A friend is a person with whom you dare
to be yourself.

Add all the love of all the parents and
the total sum cannot be multiplied enough
times to express God's love for me, the
least of his children.

A long life is barely enough for a man
and a woman to understand each other; and
to be understood is to love. The man who
understands one woman is qualified to
understand pretty well everything.

Not the quarry, but the chase,
Not the trophy, but the race.

Love is not soft like water, it is hard like rock,
on which the waves of hatred beat in vain.

It is in loving, not in being loved, the heart
is blessed; It is in giving, not in seeking gifts,
we find our quest; Whatever be your longing
or your need, that give; So shall your soul
be fed, and you indeed shall live.

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Love


To learn and never be filled, is wisdom;
To teach and never be weary is love.

Conscience is God's presence in man.

Mrs.--Do you love me still?
Mr.---Yes, better than any other way.

God regards the greatness of the love that
prompts the man, rather than the greatness
of his achievement.

It is as absurd to pretend that one cannot love
the same woman always as to pretend that a good
artist needs several violins to play a piece of music.

I married her because we have so many
faults in common.

We like someone because. We love someone although.

A friend is one who knows all about you
and still likes you.

Go often to the house of your friend, for
weeds choke up the unused path.

Your friend has a friend, and your friend's friend
has a friend; be discreet.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge
over which he must pass, for every man has
need to be forgiven.

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds
on the heel that crushed it.

To understand is to pardon.

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Love


Friendship is the only cement that will
ever hold the world together.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys
them so much.

Love is the passionate and abiding desire on
the part of two or more people to produce
together conditions under which each can
be, and spontaneously express, his real self;
to produce together an intellectual soil and an
emotional climate in which each can flourish,
far superior to what either could achieve alone.

The best way for a husband to clinch an
argument is to take her in his arms.

The bonds of matrimony aren't worth much
unless the interest is kept up.

A friend is a present you give yourself.

One reason why a dog is such a lovable creature
is that his tail wags instead of his toungue.

Come what may, hold fast to love! Though
men should rend your hear, let them not
embitter or harden it. We win by tenderness;
we conquer by forgiveness.

One of the mysteries of life is how the
boy who wasn't good enough to marry the
daughter can be the father of the smartest
grandchild in the world.

Friends are made by many acts---and
lost by only one.

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Love


Pure religion is love in action.

The smallest good deed is better than
the grandest intention.



I've found a little remedy
To ease the life we live
And make each day a happier one---
It is the word 'forgive'.

So often little things come up
That leave a pain and sting,
That covered up at once would not
Amount to anything.

'Tis when we hold them up to view,
And brood and sulk and fret,
They greater grow before our eyes;
'Twere better to forget.



Politeness is a small price to pay for the
good will and affection of others.

The greater the man, the greater the courtesy.

The coin of God's realm is love.

A partnership with God is motherhood.

It is better to have loved and lost than never
to have loved at all.

American Creed: Patriotism which
leaps over the fence of party prejudice.
Religion which jumps over the wall of intolerance.
Brotherhood which climbs over the
mountain of national separations.

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Love


The best gifts are tied with heartstrings.

Man is probably the only animal which even
attempts to have anything to do with his
half-grown young.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie.

A friend is one who comes to you when
all others leave.

He drew a circle that shut me out,
But love and I had the wit to win;
We drew a larger circle that took him in.

Mothers, as well as fools, sometimes walk
where angels fear to tread.

When a man does a noble act, date him from
that. Forget his faults. Let his noble act be the
standpoint from which you regard him.

A mistake at least proves somebody stopped
talking long enough to do something.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell
where his influence stops.

'Twas her thinking of others made you think of her.

Water which is distant is no good for a
fire which is near.

Success in marriage is much more than
finding the right person; it is a matter of
being the right person.

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Faith


Faith is a gift of God. It is not a material that
can be seen, heard, smelled, tasted, or touched;
but is as real as anything that can be perceived
with these senses. One can be aware of
Faith as easily as one can be aware of earth.
Faith is as certain as is the existence of water.
Faith is as sure as the taste of an apple, the
fragrance of a rose, the sound of thunder,
the sight of the sun, the feel of a loving touch.
Hope is a wish, a longing for something not now
possessed, but with the expectation of getting it.
Faith adds surety to the expectation of hope.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

I am to be so busy today that I must spend
more time than usual in prayer.

Inexperience is what makes a young man do
what an older man says is impossible.

When you get to the end of your rope,
tie a knot in it and hang on.

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Faith


You are not a reservoir with a limited
amount of resources; you are a channel attached
to unlimited divine resources.

God is playing chess with man. He meets
his every move.

The sectarian thinks that he has the sea ladled
into his private pond.

Who draws nigh to God through doubting dim...
God will advance a mile in blazing light to him.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot
do everything, but I can do something;
and what I should do and can do, by the
Grace of God I will do.


No vision and you perish
No ideal and you are lost.
Your heart must ever cherish
Some faith at any cost.


Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy,
until nightfall; anyone can do his work,
however hard, for one day.

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance; it is
laying hold on His willingness.

Prayer is not an attitude attained but an
attitude maintained.

The secret of prayer is secret prayer.

The man who trusts men will make fewer
mistakes than he who distrusts them.

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Faith


God's requirements are met by God's enablings.

A skeptic is one who won't take know
for an answer.

I have faith in Him, not in my faith.

No man is responsible for the rightness of his
faith; but only for the uprightness of it.

Dare to be wise; begin! He who postpones the
hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits
for the river to run out before he crosses.

The night is not forever.

Do not worry about whether or not the sun
will rise; be prepared to enjoy it.

The best and most beautiful things
in the world cannot be seen nor touched
but are felt in the heart.

The Christian on his knees sees more than the
philosopher on tiptoe.

Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and
happier to sometimes be cheated than not to trust.

God never closes one door without opening another.

Faith is the grave of care.

Prayer is not a substitute for work. It is a
desperate effort to work further and to be
effective beyond the range of one's power.

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Prayer releases the power and wisdom of God in any situation.