"Fear is the parent of cruelty."

-- James Anthony Froude

#Fear Quotes #Parent Quotes #Cruelty Quotes

“Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid. Star of the east the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.”

Source : Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1831). “The poetical works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok”, p.17
“There are five freedoms: The freedom to see and hear what is; The freedom to say what you feel and think; The freedom to feel what you actually feel; The freedom to ask for what you want; The freedom to take risks on your own behalf.”
“The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.”
“I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.”
“I always second-guess what I am doing.”
“What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death. They are one: choosing sugarcoated misery we mock the lifegiving God. It was meant to be another way: God's glory exalted in our everlasting joy.”
“I love you,â€ I said, causing his face to contort in pain. â€œIâ€™m not a man so I do not have a heart that loves as a human does. Iâ€™m an immortal god that dwells with supreme power because I hold the keys to Death. But you are my existence. I am yours.â€ Hot tears streamed down my face as I stared into the face of someone who comprehended an emotion much stronger than my weak, feeble words of love.”
“The smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us.....”

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