What if the actual sin was that despite the fact of knowing how cruel and unfair this world is; we still bring children to life?
Sandra Chami KassisTags: wisdom life justice children inspirational-quotes sin kids spiritual-quotes questions-in-life
Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.
Mark MillerTags: wisdom decisions leadership leaders
True wisdom is gentle and relevant. It comes to us when we are ready to hear it through a conduit we perceive as safe and loving.
Danielle BoonstraTags: wisdom inspirational truth love
Are you cold when you are happy? Are you cold when you are unhappy? Then you are a wise man! Wisdom makes man cool and calm. Wise man is cool and calm!
Mehmet Murat ildanTags: wisdom
Wisdom is finding out that a cobra is deadly; without first having to lose one’s life.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: wisdom lesson experience knowledge death mistakes cobra
a soul in a state of grace need fear nothing from devils, for they are so cowardly that they feel from the gaze of a child
St-Therese de LisieuxTags: wisdom religion spirituality strength-of-spirit
I quote my father to people almost every day. Part of that is because if you dispense your own wisdom, others often dismiss it; if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable. Of course, when you have someone like my dad in your back pocket, you can't help yourself. You quote him every chance you get.
Randy PauschWhen you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.
Minor WhiteTags: wisdom photography silence communication stillness essence meditation stillness-of-the-mind minor-white
To get from the tangible to the intangible (which mature artists in any medium claim as part of their task) a paradox of some kind has frequently been helpful. For the photographer to free himself of the tyranny of the visual facts upon which he is utterly dependent, a paradox is the only possible tool. And the talisman paradox for unique photography is to work "the mirror with a memory" as if it were a mirage, and the camera is a metamorphosing machine, and the photograph as if it were a metaphor…. Once freed of the tyranny of surfaces and textures, substance and form [the photographer] can use the same to pursue poetic truth" (Minor White, Newhall, 281).
Minor WhiteTags: wisdom art photography reality inspiration illusion metaphor artist concept minor-white
Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man. The love of God means wasted love. 'For God and Country' means a divided allegiance—a 50 per cent patriot.
The most abused word in the language of man is the word 'God.' The reason for this is that it is subject to so much abuse. There is no other word in the human language that is as meaningless and incapable of explanation as is the word 'God.' It is the beginning and end of nothing. It is the Alpha and Omega of Ignorance.
It has as many meanings as there are minds. And as each person has an opinion of what the word God ought to mean, it is a word without premise, without foundation, and without substance. It is without validity. It is all things to all people, and is as meaningless as it is indefinable. It is the most dangerous in the hands of the unscrupulous, and is the joker that trumps the ace. It is the poisoned word that has paralyzed the brain of man.
'The fear of the Lord' is not the beginning of wisdom; on the contrary, it has made man a groveling slave; it has made raving lunatics of those who have attempted to interpret what God 'is' and what is supposed to be our 'duty' to God. It has made man prostitute the most precious things of life—it has made him sacrifice wife, and child, and home.
'In the name of God' means in the name of nothing—it has caused man to be a wastrel with the precious elixir of life, because there is no God.
Tags: fear wisdom life danger ignorance meaning duty poison interpretation value waste lunatics substance foundation abuse allegiance premise paralyze validity meaningless
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