Messengers Quotes

• Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Peace, Truth

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• Coincidence is a messenger sent by truth.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Coincidence

  Jacqueline Winspear (2011). “Maisie Dobbs Bundle #2, An Incomplete Revenge and Among the Mad: Books 5 and 6”, p.31, Henry Holt and Company

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• Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.

  Mary Oliver

  Fire, Wings, Filled

  Mary Oliver (2000). “Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Marriage, Sympathy

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• A good message will always find a messenger.

  Amelia Barr

  Messages

  Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.136, Litres

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• I'm an imperfect messenger, but the message is perfect.

  Ron Paul

  Perfect, Messages, Imperfect

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• As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.

  Jay Griffiths

  Duty

  "Call of the wild" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2007.

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• Love is the way messengers
  from the mystery tell us things

  Rumi

  Love Is, Way, Mystery

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• The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.

  Roy Ayers

  People, True Beauty, Messages

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• I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.

  Anita Hill

  Ideas, People, Messages

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• When the student is ready, the messenger appears.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Students, Ready

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• Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.

  Alexander the Great

  Kings, Army, Punishment

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• Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.

  Henri Nouwen

  Sky, Saint, Sun

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• These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Pain

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• Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Acceptance, Messages

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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• The true beauty of music is that it connects people.

  Roy Ayers

  Music, People, True Beauty

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• People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

  Bob Marley

  Song, People, Leader

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• Our lives are God's messengers beneath the stars.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Stars, Our Lives

  Sri Aurobindo (1995). “Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol”, p.513, Lotus Press

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• I became the messenger who had to be killed

  Anita Hill

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• Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.

  Dolley Madison

  Dust, Two, Waiting

  Dolley Madison (1886). “Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States”, Boston ; New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.

  Francis Atterbury

  Believe, Discovery, Other Worlds

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• Your thoughts and actions not only influence your mood, but the moods of all you cross paths with. Thinking lovingly. Do lovingly. Be a messenger for love.

  Karen Salmansohn

  Love, Thinking, Path

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• I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

  Jeff Koons

  Artist, Trying, Levels

  Journal of Contemporary Art - Online 1(1): 18 - 23, 1988.

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• I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.

  Chuck Mangione

  Blessed, Player, Two

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• In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.

  Cat Stevens

  Peace, Ignorance, Light

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