Random Wisdom for Today

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Let us give thanks...

For generous friends...with hearts as big as hubbards
and smiles as bright as their blossoms;

For feisty friends as tart as apples;

For continuous friends, who, like scallions and cucumbers, keep reminding us we had them;

For crotchety friends, as sour as rhubarb and as indestructible;

For handsome friends, who are as gorgeous as eggplants and as elegant as a row of corn -- and the others -- as plain as potatoes, and so good for you.

For funny friends, who are as silly as brussels sprouts and as amusing as Jerusalem artichokes, and serious friends as complex as cauliflowers and as intricate as onions;

For friends as unpretentious as cabbages, as subtle as summer squash, as persistent as parsley, as delightful as dill, as endless as zucchini, and who -- like parsnips -- can be counted on to see you through the long winter;

For old friends, nodding like sunflowers in the evening-time, and young friends coming on as fast as radishes;

For loving friends, who wind around as like tendrils, and hold us despite our blights, wilts, and witherings;

And finally, for those friends now gone, like gardens past, that have been harvested - but who fed us in their times that we might have life thereafter;

For all these we give thanks.

Amen.

~ Max Coots

 

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Altho insured
Remember, kiddo
They don't pay you
They pay
Your widow
Burma-Shave

 

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It is well known, and will be acknowledged by every candid person, that the human heart is capable of becoming soft, or hard; kind, or unkind; merciful or unmerciful, by education and habit. On this principle we contend, that the infernal torments, which false religion has placed in the future world, and which ministers have, with an overflowing zeal, so constantly held up to the people, and urged with all their learning and eloquence, have tended so to harden the hearts of the professors of this religion, that they have exercised, toward their fellow creatures, a spirit of enmity, which but too well corresponds with the relentless cruelty of their doctrine, and the wrath which they have imagined to exist in our heavenly Father. By having such an example constantly before their eyes, they have become so transformed into its image, that, whenever they have had the power, they have actually executed a vengeance on men and women, which evinced that the cruelty of their doctrine had overcome the native kindness and compassion of the human heart.

~ Hosea Ballou

 

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Perhaps the greatest sin of all is turning a book—and that is all the Bible ultimately is—one inspired and, yes, imperfect book—perhaps the greatest sin of all is turning a Book, and several mistranslated passages, into permission to deny worth, dignity, and legitimacy to people whose only wish is to love deeply and love truly till death do them part.

~ Reverend Tim Kutzmark

 

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The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God.

~ Carl Sagan

 

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We need not think alike to love alike.

~ Francis David

 

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Religion is for people afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there

~ unknown

 

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They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself

~Andy Warhol

 

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Today is the Remembrance service at our church, so in that context...

When you are sorrowful
look into your heart
and you shall see that
you are weeping
for that which has been
your delight

~ جبران خليل جبران بن ميخائيل بن سعد[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] (Kahlil Gibran)[/FONT]

 

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Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.

~ Andre Gide

 

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Can it be true that God has set bounds to everything under the sun, and left man, as a single exception, to an illimited course of rebellion to his laws? Those may believe it who can; but I must say we have no fears that such a position can be true. Men may wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived; but, when they come to their utmost bound, they can go no further. Their progress in wickedness can no more be endless than wave following wave can pursue its course over the face of the whole earth.

~ Rev. S.C. Loveland