Enlightening Quotes - Page 14

• Prayer works in the mind as a healing force. It calms the patient, enlightens the physician, guides the surgeon, and it often victoriously applies the power of the spirit when all seems lost. It proves, over and over again, the truth of Tennyson's words: "More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of." Prayer puts us on God's side. It aligns us with life's higher purposes, aims, and ideals. Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of God shines.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Dream, Prayer, Healing

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• The walking tour guides one through the city's various landmarks, reciting bits of information the listener might find enlightening. I learned, for example, that in the late 1500s my little neighborhood square was a popular spot for burning people alive. Now lined with a row of small shops, the tradition continues, though in a figurative rather than literal sense.

  David Sedaris

  Squares, Cities, People

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings.

  Kim Hee-jin

  Enlightenment, Delusion, Deluded

  Hee-Jin Kim (2010). “Dogen on Meditation and Thinking: A Reflection on His View of Zen”, p.3, SUNY Press

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• God, we are told, is willing to render himself inconsistent and ridiculous, to confound the curiosity of those whom, we are at the same time informed, he desires to enlighten by his special grace. What must we think of a revelation which, far from teaching us any thing, is calculated to darken and puzzle the clearest ideas?

  Baron d'Holbach

  Teaching, Thinking, Ideas

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• The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals.

  Le Corbusier

  Cities, Citizens, Planning

  "The Edict of Chandigarh". chandigarh.gov.in. December 17, 1959.

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• For I have learned that every heart will get
  What it prays for
  Most.

  Hafez

  Heart, Praying, I Have Learned

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• Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens.

  John Agard

  Self, People, Boundaries

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• The wise man does not lay up treasure. The more he expends on others, the more he gains for himself. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

  "The Book of the Simple Way of Laotze: A New Translation from the Text of the Tao-teh-king".

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• The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.

  William James

  Men, Essence, Giving

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.13, Xist Publishing

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• There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to enlighten but to deceive and enrage.

  Edward Humes

  Two, Theory Of Evolution, Radio

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• Love is how it feels to recognize our essential unity. Awakening to oneness is the experience of Big Love. Knowing you are one with all, you find yourself in love with all.

  Timothy Freke

  Wisdom, Yoga, Love Is

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• For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed by God, devoid of all goodness that we may be filled by him, the slaves of sin that he may give us freedom, blind that he may enlighten, lame that he may cure, and feeble that he may sustain us; to strip ourselves of all ground of glorying that he alone may shine forth glorious, and we be glorified in him?

  John Calvin

  Giving, Shining, Lame

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.20, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is really rather foolish to so often feel we have to say something brilliant and enlightening to someone who is suffering. Job makes it clear that simple companionship is what suffering people often crave - not a course in philosophy.

  Kathryn Lindskoog

  Jobs, Philosophy, Helping Others

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• We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Teacher, Children, Angel

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• Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Encouraging

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• He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

  Laozi

  Reality, Generosity, Giving

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• By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Goodbye, Winning

  "Tao Te Ching". Book by Laozi, Ch. 48, as translated by Raymond B. Blakney (1955), c. 6th - 5th century BC.

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• Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

  Laozi

  War, Taoism, Violence

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• I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle, it's not going to be satisfying.

  Greg LeMond

  Inspirational, Struggle, Cycling

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• Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care for the sick, protect the defenseless, assist the weak, and enlighten the ignorant. But these are simply moral duties, of which each man must be his own judge, in each particular case, as to whether, and how, and how far, he can, or will perform them.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Sick, Judging

  Lysander Spooner (1882). “Natural Law, Or, The Science of Justice: A Treatise on Natural Law, Natural Justice, Natural Rights, Natural Liberty, and Natural Society : Showing that All Legislation Whatsoever is an Absurdity, a Usurpation, and a Crime”

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• The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him.

  John Climacus

  Prayer, Silence, Secret

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.159, Paulist Press

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• I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

  Andrew McMahon

  Life, Beautiful, Carpe Diem

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• Be the apostle of the divine Eucharist, like a flame which enlightens and warms, like the Angel of his heart who will go to proclaim him to those who don't know him and will encourage those who love him and are suffering.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Christian, Heart, Angel

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• If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.

  Bernie Siegel

  Encouragement, Nature, Adversity

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• Defeat serves to enlighten us.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Defeat

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