Howard Fast famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]
-- Howard Fast

#Mother #Men
A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.
-- Howard Fast

#Distance #Mountain #Stills
Only people who suffer show the ravages of age.
-- Howard Fast

#People #Suffering #Age
Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.
-- Howard Fast

#Growing Up #Kids #Chance
The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.
-- Howard Fast

#Jobs #Dignity #Workers
Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever
-- Howard Fast

#Arrogance #Nerves #Yiddish
And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic Zen Buddhist or a Jewish Zen Buddhist. Zen is a quiet thing. It listens.
-- Howard Fast

#Buddhist #Catholic #Promise
Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.
-- Howard Fast

#Religion #Doctrine #Scripture

Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.
I wanted to live. For the father and brother who I never knew and for my mother who was cheated of a life of happiness. I wanted to live for them. And I wanted to live for me.
When mother is happy, family is happy. When family is happy, nation is happy.
Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.
I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.

Howard Fast famous quotes

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