Sunday

"Were I to be the founder of a new sect,

I would call them Apiarians, and, after the example of the bee,

advise them to extract the honey of every sect."  

- Thomas Jefferson

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays in the palm; clutch it, and it darts away. -

Dorothy Parker, author (22 Aug 1893-1967)

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day;

I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.

-Edgar Guest, poet (20 Aug 1881-1959)

"We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds

and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond

through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds

and the murmuring of the sea."

~Paul Tillich (1886-1965)

“Live by the trinity of what is true, good and beautiful.

” Alexandra Stoddard, philosopher of contemporary living

"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,

you'll never enjoy the sunshine."

- Morris West

Better appreciate a sunset than to be lord of a thousand conquered

cities. The man that can be moved by music is happier

than he whose acclaim is shouted from the hilltops.

The soul grows not by material things, but only by thought.

If a man thinketh not, even though he sits upon a throne

his soul is still in embryo."

Taylor Caldwell

“...the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry

no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only

that they who live under its protection,

should demean themselves as good citizens.”

- George Washington

“Take time first to be holy. Don’t let a day go by without

meditation and prayer for some definite purpose,

and not for self, but that self may be the channel of help

to someone else.

For in helping others is the greater way to help self.”

(Edgar Cayce reading 3624-1)

...I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility

against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

- Jefferson to Dr. Benjamin Rush, September 23, 1800

" The ultimate meaning of the Bible escapes human limits

and calls us to a recognition that every life is holy,

every life is loved, and every life is called to be

all that that life is capable of being.

The Bible is, thus, not about religion at all

but about becoming deeply and fully human.

It issues the invitation to live fully, to love wastefully

and to have the courage to be our most complete selves."

John Shelby Spong