Great Throughts Treasury

"The only thing that affects your experience is the way you utilize the Non-Physical Energy with your thought." - Ester and Jerry Hicks

"There is no room for two kings in one castle." - Estonian Proverbs

"Who wants will get." - Estonian Proverbs

"Great men have big hearts." - Ethiopian Proverbs

"In my eyes, concepts of theology have only as much value as they are able to interpret experience. It seems to me that we have long reached the point where we theologians only talk to ourselves and debate with our own history of concepts." - Eugen Drewermann

"If by spiritual direction you mean entering into a friendship with another person in which an awareness and responsiveness to God's Spirit in the everydayness of your life is cultivated, fine. Then why call in an awkward term like spiritual direction? Why not just friend?" - Eugene Peterson

"Let him come! I have seen them come before -- at Margesfontein, Spion Kiopje, Modder River. Stepping into battle, left right left right, waving their silly swords, so afraid they couldn't show off how brave they was, and with mine rifle I kills them so easy! [General Wetjoen talking about the Boer War]" - Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

"By the quality of our inner lives I do not mean something characterized by ferocious intensity and strain. I mean rather such a humble and genial devotedness as we find in the most loving of the saints. I mean the quality which makes contagious.. the love of God from you." - Evelyn Underhill

"Change is the only evidence of life." - Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

"Let us not be deceived in the sifting days ahead. Let us rally together on principle behind the prophet as guided by the promptings of the Spirit. We should continue to speak out for freedom and against socialism and communism. We should continue to come to the aid of patriots, programs, and organizations that are trying to save our Constitution through every legal and moral means possible." - Ezra Taft Benson

"The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land." - Feisal Abdul Rauf

"What I state as certain is certain for me. It has approved itself as such in my experience. Let others consult their experience, and see how far it tallies with that which is here set forth." - Felix Adler

"Some things can be improved by training, others require innate talent." - Italian Proverbs

"Who wishes for a short Lent let him contract debts to be paid at Easter." - Italian Proverbs

"With so many roosters crowing, the sun never comes up." - Italian Proverbs

"A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

"About her feet in wide vessels of green and brown earthenware, white water-lilies were floating, so that she seemed to be enthroned in the midst of a pool. ?Enter, good guests!? she said, and as she spoke they knew that it was her clear voice they had heard singing. They came a few timid steps further into the room, and began to bow low, feeling strangely surprised and awkward, like folk that, knocking at a cottage door to beg for a drink of water, have been answered by a fair young elf-queen clad in living flowers. But before they could say anything, she sprang lightly up and over the lily-bowls, and ran laughing towards them; and as she ran her gown rustled softly like the wind in the flowering borders of a river." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien