Porphyry Quotes

#1. Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the human actions and passions, restoring 'Pristine Harmony' of the souls' faculties. He applied the same means to the curing of diseases of both body and mind ...

Porphyry

#2. The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

Robert Barron

#3. She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#4. Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common
to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

John McCain

#5. I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.

Sebastian Bach

#6. He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. For he who loves the genus will not hate any species of animals.

Porphyry

#7. The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self- love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of these, if considered, will be found to be adverse to Unity.

Edward Bach

#8. Ah, Robbie, when we are dead and buried in our porphyry tombs, and the trumpet of the Last Judgement is sounded, I shall turn and whisper to you, 'Robbie, Robbie, let us pretend we do not hear it.

Oscar Wilde

#9. I wondered if there was something sacred, something everlasting, about melted ice cream and summer days and good stories.

Natalie Lloyd

#10. In the aether I appear in fiery forms, And in the aer I sit in a silvery chariot; earth reigns in my black brood of puppies.

Porphyry

#11. Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality

Charles De Gaulle

#12. When you get to heaven God won't ask you why you weren't more like Billy Graham. He may ask you why you weren't more like you. Get in touch with who you are. Lead with your own unique style. Be yourself and let God use you.

Rick Warren

#13. What a sad thing I thought
to live in a world so concerned with the lives of others,
we forget to live our own.

Anonymous

#14. If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Kahlil Gibran

#15. Our conduct will never change God's character.

Bill Hybels

#16. Do you want to know what I most regret about my youth? That I didn't dream more boldly and demand of myself more impossible things; for all one does in maturity is to carve in granite or porphyry the soap bubble one blew in youth! Oh to have dreamed harder!

Lewis Mumford

#17. The Gods have proclaimed Christ to have been most pious, but the Christians are a confused and vicious sect.

Porphyry

#18. Forget politics, his father had always said. Just give 'em something they need, or they'll eat you alive.

Joe Schreiber

#19. Our Lord even gives you suffering that you might share the comfort you receive from Him with somebody who is suffering!

J. Vernon McGee

#20. God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.

Watchman Nee