Edwin Francis Gay famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As the bus slowed down at the crowded bus stop, the Pakistani bus conductor leaned from the platform and called out, "Six only!" The bus stopped. He counted on six passengers, rang the bell, and then, as the bus moved off, called to those left behind: "So sorry, plenty of room in my heart - but the bus is full." He left behind a row of smiling faces. It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it.
-- Edwin Francis Gay

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I am a Bible Christian and if an archangel with a wingspread as broad as a constellation shining like the sun were to come and offer me some new truth, I'd ask him for a reference. If he could not show me where it is found in the Bible, I would bow him out and say, I'm awfully sorry, you don't bring any references with you
Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.
Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.
Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.
Religions have become a hindrance, rather than a help, to our shared pursuit of peace and progress. They tend to make us meaner rather than better human beings, less sensitive to the demands of justice, compassion and fellow humanity in our times.
Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar, A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students; Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good, Some to rely on dualism, other on non-dualism; And to some he teaches the profound, The terrifying, the practice of enlightenment, Whose essence is emptiness that is compassion

Edwin Francis Gay famous quotes

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