L.M. > L.M.'s Quotes

“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
― Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost

“The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it”
― Nouwen Henri J. M.

“A fool and his money are soon elected.”
― Will Rogers

“The Savior answered, 'Man does not see through
the soul, nor through the spirit, but the mind which
is between the two—that is (what) sees a vision...”
― The Gnostic Scriptures, The Gospel of Mary

“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.”
― Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will

“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.”
― Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory

“You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.”
― Henry Nouwen

“People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.”
― Henri Nouwen

“As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their "right" place.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen

“Pride is a pratfall in waiting.”
― L.M. Aldrich

“Revelation is a warning, not a mandate.”
― L.M. Aldrich

“Hate is a spiritual illness.”
― L.M. Aldrich, Legends of the Light Bearer: The story left untold