| Here are some of
Clyde's
favorite L O N G quotes:
"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume;
when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book,
but translated into a better language,
and every chapter must be so translated. . .
No man is an island, entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed
away by the sea, Europe is the less. . .
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind;
and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
it tolls for thee."
John Donne in Meditation XVII, 1624
"Lord, make me an instrument of Your Peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sickness, joy;
O Divine Master, grant that I may not
So much seek to be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
To be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying
That we are born to eternal life."
attributed to John Bernardone (otherwise known
as Francis of Assisi)
"Some beliefs are like walled gardens.
They encourage exclusiveness, and the feeling of being especially
privileged.
Other beliefs are expansive and lead the way into wider and deeper
sympathies.
Some beliefs are like shadows, darkening children's days with
fears of unknown calamities.
Other beliefs are like sunshine, blessing children with the warmth
of happiness.
Some beliefs are divisive, separating the saved from the unsaved,
friends from enemies.
Other beliefs are bonds in a universal humanity where sincere
differences beautify the pattern.
Some beliefs are like gateways, opening up wide vistas for
exploration.
Some beliefs weaken a person's selfhood. They blight the growth
of resourcefulness.
Other beliefs nurture self-confidence and enrich the feeling of
personal worth.
Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a
changing world.
Other beliefs are pliable, like a young sapling, ever growing with
the upward thrust of life."
Sophia Lyon Fahs, It Matters
What We Believe
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