Green Paddy Field Quotes

#1. Faith cannot be about absolute certainty in the letters of the Bible and wrath against those who don't comply (Ephesians 2:15). It has to be about overwhelming trust in God's love,6 which as the apostle Paul confirms, is beyond the letter of law and narrow legalistic interpretations.

Amos Smith

#2. We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.

Theodore Roosevelt

#3. Contraries are cured by contraries.

Bill Vaughan

#4. Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

Phyllis Bottome

#5. Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

Anthony Kiedis

#6. Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.

Blaise Pascal

#7. Every few years something new breaks into the circle of my thoughts.

Mason Cooley

#8. Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on the page, they will start to speak with sounds of their own.

Dexter Palmer