Pastor Christopher's quotes

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"God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus."
— Huston Smith

tags: faith, inspirational, jesus, philosophy, religion, theology
1 person liked it

""Sea-Fever"

I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking.

I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over"
— John Masefield (Sea Fever: Selected Poems of John Masefield)

tags: naval, ship, tall
9 people liked it

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
-Genesis 1:1"
— Various

tags: bible, creation, god, science, truth
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"I would urge us to be not too certain of our accustomed ways of looking at Genesis, and to open ourselves to the wisdom of the God-bearing men of the past who have devoted so much intellectual effort to understanding the text of Genesis as it was meant to be understood. These Holy Fathers are our key to understanding Genesis."
— Seraphim Rose (Genesis, Creation and Early Man)

tags: bible, christian, genesis, orthodox
1 person liked it

"All the darkness in the world can't extinguish the light from a single candle."
— Francis Of Assisi (The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi)

tags: inspirational
605 people liked it

"May those who love us love us.
And those who don't love us,
May God turn their hearts.
And if He doesn't turn their hearts,
My he turn their ankles,
So we'll know them by their limping."
— An Irish Blessing

8 people liked it

"The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!"
— Harvey Milk

tags: religion
44 people liked it

"Beware of people who dislike cats."
— Irish Proverb

55 people liked it

"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. 'Pooh?' he whispered.
'Yes, Piglet?'
'Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. 'I just wanted to be sure of you.'"
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

tags: friendship
3,132 people liked it

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."
— Mahatma Gandhi (GANDHI: An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)

tags: conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence
1,859 people liked it

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, connection, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, hope, inspirational, peace
1,854 people liked it

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles."
— Charlie Chaplin

tags: inspirational
3 people liked it

"for the dead and the living, we must bear witness."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: genocide, holocaust, war, witness
55 people liked it

"Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car."
— Garrison Keillor

tags: humor, religion
4,049 people liked it

"A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on."
— Carl Sandburg

tags: children, hope, religion
118 people liked it

"Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God."
— Lenny Bruce

tags: god, jesus, religion
27 people liked it

"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: saint, sinner
401 people liked it

"The oldest fiddle plays the sweetest tune."
— Irish Proverb

tags: age, fiddle, music
36 people liked it

"Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love."
— Nora Roberts (Tears of the Moon)

31 people liked it

"May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
the rain fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of his hand.""
— Irish Blessing

31 people liked it

"If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race. "
— Huston Smith

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"When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious."
— Edna O'Brien

tags: character, irish
10 people liked it

"People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying school masters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years.

Above all -- we were wet."
— Frank McCourt

6 people liked it

"may you be in heaven a half 'n hour before the devil knows you're dead."
— IRISH TOAST

tags: irish, toast
2 people liked it

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa

tags: judge, judgemental, love, time
4,318 people liked it

"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."
— Mother Teresa

tags: actions, can-do, great-love, great-things, inspirational, love, small-things
3,256 people liked it

"I love mankind, it's people I can't stand."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: humor, mankind, people
3,273 people liked it

"A person's a person, no matter how small."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: inspirational
2,345 people liked it

"I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much."
— Mother Teresa

tags: catholicism, christianity, god, inspirational, religion
1,923 people liked it

"Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek."
— Tom Robbins (Jitterbug Perfume)

tags: humor
11 people liked it

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

224 people liked it

"Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow."
— Kahlil Gibrán (The Prophet)

tags: love, marriage
158 people liked it

"The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea"
— Isak Dinesen

119 people liked it

"It is a good rule . . . to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: books, wisdom
107 people liked it

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

tags: antoine, de, motivation, saint-exupéry, teaching
62 people liked it

""A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for."
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— William Shedd

tags: courage, inspirational, risk
168 people liked it

"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, inspirational
2,613 people liked it

"Never laugh at live dragons"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: dragons, wisdom
375 people liked it

"From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more, forever."
— Chief Joseph

4 people liked it

"Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did?

Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty.

Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin.

Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information."
— Bill Watterson

tags: humor, school
212 people liked it

"This dream the world is having about itself
includes a trace on the plains of the Oregon trail,
a groove in the grass my father showed us all
one day while meadowlarks were trying to tell
something better about to happen."
— William Edgar Stafford (The Way It Is)

tags: poetry, poets
2 people liked it

""The Holy Land is everywhere""
— Black Elk

tags: american, native, religion, spirituality
9 people liked it

""The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us." "
— Black Elk

tags: body, mind, peace, spirit, spirituality, wisdom
15 people liked it

"Behold this day. It is yours to make."
— Black Elk

5 people liked it

"Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of the little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
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— Black Elk

3 people liked it

"There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which... is within the souls of men."
— Black Elk

tags: insight, peace
2 people liked it

"For us, warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, because no one has the right to take another's life. The warrior, for us, is one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who cannot provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity."
— Sitting Bull

tags: inspiration, native-americans
24 people liked it

"An old man said to his grandchildren, 'Inside everyone are two fighting wolves. One wolf is generous and kind, but the other is deceitful and unkind.' One of the children asked his grandfather, 'Which wolf will win?' The old man replied, 'The one you feed.'"
— Native American proverb

tags: conscience, evil, good, humanity, native-americans
21 people liked it

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children"
— Native American Proverb

tags: conservation, environment, native-americans
13 people liked it

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