Religion in America

 

February 5^th

• " Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,--himself, his hungering neighbor, and me." James Russell Lowell"

January 30^th

• "Man is born to live, not to prepare for life." Boris Pasternak

January 23^rd

• "Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish." Michelangelo

January 15^th

• "Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time." Goethe

January 9^th

• "I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail. William Faulkner

May 3^rd

• "Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it." Horace

February 16^th

• "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." Helen Keller

February 2^nd

• "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.  You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt

January 26^th

• "Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait." Ralph Waldo Emerson

January 19^th

• "The opposite of love is not hate but indifference." Elie Wiesel

January 12^th

• "Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." George Bernard Shaw

January 5^th

• " Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,--himself, his hungering neighbor, and me." James Russell Lowell

October 30^th

• "The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress."  Hendrik Willem Van Loon