"The union of lakes--the union of lands-- The union of States none can sever-- The union of hearts--the union of hands-- And the flag of our Union for ever!"

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Source : George Pope Morris, Horace Binney Wallace, Maria Edgeworth (1860). “Poems of George P. Morris: With a Memoir of the Author”, p.68

George Pope Morris

#Heart Quotes #Lakes Quotes #Hands Quotes

“President Obama's proposal to raise the top rate to 39 percent is equal to the rate under President Clinton in the 1990s when Wall Street reached record high levels and the economy produced lots of jobs.”
“He thought about science, about faith, about man. he thought about how every culture, in every country, in every time, had always shared one thing. We all had the Creator. We used different names, different faces, and different prayers, but God was the universal constant for man. God was the symbol we all shared...the symbol of all the mysteries of life that we could not understand. The ancients had praised God as a symbol of our limitless human potential, but that ancient symbol had been lost over time. Until now.”
“Father, mother, child, are the human trinity, whose substance must not be divided nor its persons confounded. As well reconstruct your granite out of the grains it is disintegrated into as society out of the dissolution of wedded love.”

Source : "Tools Of Speech". Book by Maturin M. Ballou, archive.org. 1886.
“Would you really dig into yesterday's garbage to make tonight's meal? Do you dig into yesterday's mental garbage to create today's experiences?”
“It may well be a sign of the decadence of the Church and the failure of Christianity that gifts have to be coaxed out of people, and that often they will not give at all unless they get something for their money in the way of entertainment or of goods. Giving which is real giving has a certain recklessness in it.”
“Reading and writing music is a wonderful way of getting ideas in your head down to someone else who reads and writes, but if you don't read and write, and the other musician you're playing with are trying to express something who doesn't read and write, than it's a question of "I wrote" so that you must learn from listening and from understanding where that's coming from.”
“Let me come in when you are weeping, friend, and let me take your hand. I, who have known a sorrow such as yours, can understand.”

Source : Grace Noll Crowell, “To One In Sorrow”
“For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.”

Source : Stanley Hauerwas, John Berkman, Michael Cartwright (2001). “The Hauerwas Reader”, p.499, Duke University Press

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