quotes about jesus love for us

When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing. ~Saint Francis of Assisi



Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without. ~Rue McClanahan



In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvellous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter II "The Market-Place"



The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. ~Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers



Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. ~Percy Byshe Shelley



Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth. ~Erwin Chargaff, Columbia Forum, Summer 1969



If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. ~Anton Chekov



I learned three important things in college - to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. ~Agnes DeMille, Dance to the Piper, 1952



Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment. ~Ira Gassen



I have laboriously collected this cento out of diverse writers. I have wronged no authors but given every man his own.... Bees do little harm and damage no one in extracting honey; I can say of myself, whom have I injured? The matter is theirs most part, and yet mine.... it becomes something different in its new setting. ~Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy



A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. ~Henry Ford



The only man who can change his mind is a man that's got one. ~Edward Noyes Westcott



Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb



It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and one nut to scatter it all over the road. ~Author Unknown



Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says "Go!" - a leader says "Let's go!" ~E.M. Kelly



Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~Henry David Thoreau



Happiness flutters in the air whilst we rest among the breaths of nature. ~Kelly Scheaffer



Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal. ~Tobias Dantzig



He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"



If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral. ~Samuel P. Ginder