Ephrem The Syrian Quotes

#1. This Lord of natures today was transformed contrary to His nature;
it is not too difficult for us to also overthrow our evil will. Hymns of the Nativity, Hymn 1:97, pg. 74 in Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns (New York: Paulist Press, 1989).

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#2. The seed, swollen with moisture, burst asunder its covering of soil and out peers the blade of wheat, full of symbols. So faith, whose bosom is filled with goodly fruits, is a blade of praise.

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#3. I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.

Maya Angelou

#4. Blessed the one who meditates on death each day and destroys the base passions lurking in the vines of the heart, for he will be consoled in the moment of separation.

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#5. Have mercy, O Lord, on my children,
In my children,
Call to mind your childhood,
You who were a child.
Let them that are like your childhood
Be saved by your grace.

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#6. Like the apple of Thine eye preserve me, O Lord God; defend me and beneath Thy wings shelter me from temptations.

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#7. Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners.

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#8. Who is far from love is a bad state, and to be pitied. He passes his days in a delirious dream, far from God, deprived of light, and he lives in darkness ... Whoever does not have the love of Christ is an enemy of Christ. He walks in darkness and is easily lead into any sin.

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#9. No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.

Soren Kierkegaard

#10. We will not rest until the wooden stake is punched through the heart of the Enron lawsuit against us.

Maria Cantwell

#11. Blessed the one who has kept the mastery of his eyelids and has not deceived himself with either mind or sense with regard to the skin of the flesh that after a little while oozes putrefaction.

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#12. I don't want to be thought of as wholesome.

Julie Andrews

#13. A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.

Eugene Delacroix

#14. Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.

Charles Dickens

#15. Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights

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#16. Scripture brought me to the Gate of Paradise, and the mind stood in wonder as it entered.

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#17. In the measure to which a man cuts off and humbles his own will, he proceeds toward success. But insofar as he stubbornly guards his own will, so much does he brings harm to himself.

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#18. One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.

William J. Clinton

#19. If you wish to help someone, give secretly and avoid arrogance.

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#20. Blessed the one who, exalted by love, has become a city founded upon a mountain, from which the enemy, when he saw it, withdrew in fear, trembling at its security in the Lord.

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#21. Anyone who wants to be an example to others, must first examine himself.

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#22. Blessed the one who has become a good spiritual net and caught many for the good Lord, such a one will greatly praised by the Lord.

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#23. Be a lamp in brightness, and make the works of darkness cease, so that whenever your doctrine shines, no one may dare to heed the desires of darkness.

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#24. It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger.

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#25. Blessed the one who loves truth continually and has not lent his mouth as an instrument of impiety by lying, for he fears the commandment about idle speech.

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#26. I have consumed so many Weisinger-era Superman comics that they ooze back out through my pores!

Chris Roberson

#27. Whoever fears God stands above all manner of fear. He has become a stranger to all the fear of this world and placed it far from himself, and no manner of trembling comes near him.

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#28. Not only men, but also women, the weaker sex, in going by the narrow path of Christ have received for themselves the Kingdom of Heaven. For there is neither male nor female, but everyone receives his own reward according to his own labor.

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#29. 'Made' is about opening your heart to people who deserve your love and not trying to turn other people into something that they're not: not trying to save people who don't want to be saved. If you go down that dark path, you're not going to end up doing any good.

Jon Favreau

#30. Don't let your eyes look here and there, and don't look on someone elses' beauty, so that the devil will not conquer you with the help of your eyes.

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#31. When fighting clowns, always go for the juggler.

Darynda Jones

#32. We could think or feel as we wished toward the characters, or as the poet, discounting history, invited us to; we were the poet's guest, his world was his own kingdom, reached, as one of the poems told us, through the 'Ring of Words' ...

Janet Frame

#33. Blessed the one who continually humbles himself willingly; he will be crowned by the One who willingly humbled himself for our sake.

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#34. O Lord, we cannot go to the pool of Siloe to which you sent the blind man. But we have the chalice of Your Precious Blood, filled with life and light. The purer we are, the more we receive.

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#35. I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded - as it were - well, and certainly the important issues of the '50s - or even today - are delivered and presented to the audience in a rather honest and objective way.

David Strathairn

#36. Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love.

Wilferd Peterson

#37. I use a shredder for bank statements and phone bills. Most people use ribbon shredders that cut things straight: we can put those back together in an hour. Look for a security microcut shredder, which cuts papers into confetti.

Frank Abagnale

#38. If there were only one meaning for the words, the first interpreter would find it, and all other listeners would have neither the toil of seeking nor the pleasure of finding.

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#39. It was slow but brief, and in those few seconds I felt that need, that sense of longing, that Aspen tended to inspire in me. One look at his emerald eyes, hungry and deep, and I felt my knees start to go shaky.

Kiera Cass

#40. No one is truly poor but except the one who lacks the truth.

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