Boon Quotes - Page 5

• Prayer is, paradoxically, both a gift and a conquest, a grace and a duty. Does that not mean, is it not a special case of the truth, that all duty is a gift, every call on us a blessing, and that the task we often find a burden is really a boon?

  Peter Forsyth

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

  Peter Taylor Forsyth, Eugene H. Peterson (1916). “The Soul of Prayer”, p.11, Regent College Publishing

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• Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Death, Ifs

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.843, Oxford University Press

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• The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot.

  Pat Paulsen

  Would Be, Arkansas, Administration

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• Tis ever thus when favours are denied;
  All had been granted but the thing we beg:
  And still some great unlikely substitute--
  Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good--
  Is proffer'd, in the room of one small boon.

  Joanna Baillie

  Soul, Favors, Rooms

  Joanna Baillie (1806). “A series of plays in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind: each passion being the subject of a tragedy and a comedy”, p.98

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• Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Believe, Soul, Solitude

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• If the teacher is truly enlightened, energy and light is always coming forth from them. To be in their physical presence is a great boon, not of the teacher but of that light which passes through them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Light, Energy

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• In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.

  Horace

  Life, Dawn, Care

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• When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its supporters have always claimed it would be.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Inspirational, Education, Would Be

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• Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None of the great boons and usufructs that were to follow the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment has come to pass. There is not less drunkenness in the Republic, but more. There is not less crime, but more. There is not less insanity, but more. The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished.

  H. L. Mencken

  Law, Government, Years

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• An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

  David Korten

  Historical, Growth, Causes

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• A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Degrees, Next, Firsts

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.169

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• The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. This is probably a loss for most people, since war is our race's most popular diversion, one which gives purpose and color to dull and stupid lives. But it is a great boon to the intelligent man who fights only when he must-never for sport.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sports, War, Distance

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.228, Penguin

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