Oren Lyons Quotes

#1. If you do not have a moral question in your governing process, then you do not have a process that is going to survive.

Oren Lyons

#2. Sirs, so much as your hearts as is empty of Christ and heaven, let it be filled with shame and sorrow, and not with ease (483).

Richard Baxter

#3. What if we choose to eradicate ourselves from this Earth by whatever means? The Earth goes nowhere. And in time, it will regenerate. There may not be people, but the Earth will regenerate. And you know why? Because the Earth has all the time in the world and we don't.

Oren Lyons

#4. Partying has never been my thing. I've been around some wild people. I've been in the same room and watched them experiment, and that's been entertaining.

Vera Farmiga

#5. Even through you and I are in different boats, you in your boat and we our canoe, we share the same river of life. What befalls me befalls you. And downstream, downstream in this river of life, our children will pay for our selfishness, for our greed, and for our lack of vision.

Oren Lyons

#6. The young generation can influence their elders and can make them understand the environmental problems that are faced by us today. The youth can make them see that our environment is deteriorating day by day.

Oren Lyons

#7. In the absence of the sacred, nothing is sacred - everything is for sale.

Oren Lyons

#8. What you people call your natural resources our people call our relatives

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#9. Life will go on as long as there is someone to sing, to dance, to tell stories and to listen.

Oren Lyons

#10. When you talk about Lacrosse, you talk about the lifeblood of the six nations. The game is ingrained into our culture and our system and our lives. (the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora)

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#11. When you look at where team sports are going, the National Football League is turning into organized warfare.

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#12. I can't understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist?

Charlie Chaplin

#13. The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Tacitus

#14. Times change but principles don't.
Times change but lands do not.
Times change but our culture and
our language remain the same.
And that's what you have to keep intact.
It's not what you wear - it's what's in your heart.

Oren Lyons

#15. Science can point out dangers, but science cannot turn the direction of minds and hearts. That is the province of spiritual powers within and without our very beginnings-powers that are the mysteries of life itself.

Oren Lyons

#16. We've got to think now, in real terms, for that seventh generation . . . We've got to get back to spiritual law if we are to survive.

Oren Lyons

#17. The environment isn't over here. The environment isn't over there. You are the environment.

Oren Lyons

#18. If you have a clean environment, you will have a healthy atmosphere. This will make you happy and your happiness will bring joy to your parents and it will affect the community, too. Then there will be peace of mind to one and all.

Oren Lyons

#19. I can almost picture the disciples faces. No, not the drink-my-blood speech! We'll never get on the list of fastest-growing movements if you keep asking them to eat you!

David Platt

#20. Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.

Thomas Malthus

#21. Man sometimes thinks he's been elevated to be the controller, the ruler, but he's not. He's only part of the whole. Man's job is not to exploit, but to oversee, to be a steward. Man has responsibility, not power.

Oren Lyons

#22. [ ... ] as if the next thing must quickly come along to occupy her, or the abyss might open. What abyss? The abyss that waits for all of us, when all our actions seem futile, when the ability to fill the day seems stalled, and the waiting takes on an edge of dread.

Anita Brookner

#23. Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

Bobby Fischer

#24. Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life.

Oren Lyons

#25. For many women, becoming a widow does not just mean the heartache of losing a husband, but often losing everything else as well.

Cherie Blair

#26. If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.

Oren Lyons

#27. I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

Billy Childish

#28. We wonder, how do you instruct seven billion people as to the relationship to the Earth? Because unless they understand that, and relate the way they should be, the future is pretty dim for the human species.

Oren Lyons

#29. We have to get back to the spiritual law if we are to survive.

Oren Lyons

#30. The law says if you poison the water, you'll die. The law says that if you poison the air, you'll suffer. The law says if you degrade where you live, you'll suffer ... If you don't learn that, you can only suffer. There's no discussion with this law.

Oren Lyons

#31. The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry had arrived. Women were starting to say that you got to tell the truth now, that you had to tell the truth if you were going to heal and have an authentic life.

Anne Lamott

#32. When we walk upon Mother Earth,
we always plant our feet carefully
because we know the faces of our future generations
are looking up at us from beneath the ground.
we never forget them.

Oren Lyons

#33. Anger wounds the soul.

Linda Dobinson

#34. Holiness ... is nothing we can *do* ... It is gift, sheer gift, waiting there to be recognized and received. We do not have to be qualified to be holy. We do not have to be qualified to be whole, or healed.Made

Madeleine L'Engle

#35. * We can still alter our course. It is NOT too late. We still have options. We need the courage to change our values to the regeneration of our families, the life that surrounds us.

Oren Lyons

#36. All things are bound together, all things connect. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls also the children of the earth.

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