Louise Jordan Miln famous quotes

We earn what we get - most of us - and, sweet heaven help us! we get it. God does not always pay on Saturday - but He Pays.
-- Louise Jordan Miln

#Sweet #Heaven #Doe

It is said that the offender never forgives. Certainly it is quite explicitly hard for the one in the wrong to do so. And it takes more spiritual asset than continued alcohol often leaves.
-- Louise Jordan Miln

#Forgiveness #Spiritual #Drinking

an ounce of help is worth more than a pound of pity any day ...
-- Louise Jordan Miln

#Pounds #Helping #Pity

Only the highest souls realize and accept that he who sins is far more to be pitied, aye, and loved, if love is what the highest human passion should be, than is the one against whom the sinner has sinned.
-- Louise Jordan Miln

#Passion #Love Is #Soul

Your true cosmopolitan is born, not made. He is very rare.
-- Louise Jordan Miln

#Born #Made #Sophistication

O most illustrious of the days of time! Day full of joy and benison to earth When Thou wast born, sweet Babe of Bethlehem! With dazzling pomp descending angels sung Good will and peace to men, to God due praise, Who on the errand of salvation sent Thee, Son Beloved! of plural Unity Essential part, made flesh that mad'st all worlds.

A woman must be a cute, cuddly, naive little thing - tender, sweet, and stupid.

once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to you," sad they to the sea, "we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own." The sea replied shortly, "Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet.

Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now.

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural.