#light

I've never been up with the times, always been slightly out of step. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#been #i #never #out #slightly

[The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dominant perspective of almost all of Jesus' teaching. What is indiscriminate compassion? 'Take a look at a rose. Is is possible for the rose to say, "I'll offer my fragrance to good people and withhold it from bad people"? Or can you imagine a lamp that withholds its rays from a wicked person who seeks to walk in its light? It could do that only be ceasing to be a lamp. And observe how helplessly and indiscriminately a tree gives its shade to everyone, good and bad, young and old, high and low; to animals and humans and every living creature -- even to the one who seeks to cut it down. This is the first quality of compassion -- its indiscriminate character.' (Anthony DeMello, The Way to Love)... What makes the Kingdom come is heartfelt compassion: a way of tenderness that knows no frontiers, no labels, no compartmentalizing, and no sectarian divisions. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#compassion #faith #jesus #kingdom #light

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you. ↗

— Georg Hermes

#arrow #death #flight #lasts #life

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men. ↗

— Herodotus

#delightful #hiding #men #place #weary

Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights. ↗

— Whitey Herzog

#definite #graveyard #i #interested #lights

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#beyond #commit #conduct #constantly #constructive

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#both #burning #candle #denial #ends

There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#been #being #between #big #big difference

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#blame #clean #grave #holy #light

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#beautiful #does #ear #echoing #eggs