Richard Allen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible.
-- Richard Allen

#Heart #Godly #Lord
I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen

#Smart #Accepting
Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in the blessings of her luxuriant soil.
-- Richard Allen

#Successful #Blessing #America
Many of the white people [who] have been instruments in the hands of God for our good, even such as have held us in captivity, are now pleading our cause with earnestness and zeal.
-- Richard Allen

#Hands #White #People
Trees are, after all, our largest and oldest living things. They are Australia's natural, national treasures - the true Elders of our vast continent.
-- Richard Allen

#Australia #Tree #Treasure
The celebrated Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira loved the Ghost Gums of the Northern Territory... They are evocatively Australian, their white trunks contrasting with the red earth and the deep blue sky of the Dreamtime region that has for centuries sustained Namatjira's Aranda people.
-- Richard Allen

#Blue #Sky #White
According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world.
-- Richard Allen

#Sky #Tree #World
Just learn from your mistakes..and for give yourself..and better yourself:)
-- Richard Allen

#Mistake #Giving #Learn From Your Mistakes

Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
A divided heart loses both worlds.
Could man be drunk for ever Â Â Â With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning Â Â Â And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober Â Â Â And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Â Â Â Their hands upon their hearts.
To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God's love in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself.
The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.
I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.
In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work.

Richard Allen famous quotes

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