"A Moment's Halt-a momentary taste Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste- And, Lo! the phantom Caravan has reach'd The NOTHING it set out from. Oh, make haste!"

-- Omar Khayyam

#Life Quotes #Taste Quotes #Waste Quotes

“My thing is, and I've always been this way - to get to know as many people as I possibly can on a personal level, so that way, when you get on the football field, you've got your buddy right beside you, and you're ready to go.”
“Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.”
“Don't forget, God uses words to create the world. Words! Words are only hope.”
“April is a promise that May is bound to keep.”
“True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.”
“It's very passe to think women want to spend a fortune on clothes.”
“Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvelously made and for some great end. Although he is not form everlasting, yet he lives for ever; and though his body is mean and earthly, yet his spirit is lofty and divine”
“Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly. Others give but an occasional pluck at the rope. But he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might.”

Source : Charles Spurgeon, T. De Witt Talmage, Henry Ward Beecher, D. L. Moody, Joseph Parker (2017). “Gems of Truth & Beauty”, p.192, Gideon House Books

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