Quotes About Shinran

#1. People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.

Felix Dennis

#2. Noble disappointment, noble self-denial are not to be admired, not even to be pardoned, if they bring bitterness. It is one thing to enter the kingdom of heaven maim; another to maim yourself and stay without.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#3. There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.

Brian May

#4. I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

#5. Now, Mr. President, we don't intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!

Susan B. Anthony

#6. By being impatient, matters are damaged and great works cannot be done

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#7. Just that maybe ... maybe you don't want to change the story, because you don't know what a different ending holds.

Ann Voskamp

#8. They played great and I can honestly say I don't think any of us were expecting this type of performance. They were great. You have to give them credit for that.

Erik Spoelstra

#9. She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

#10. Health, wealth, reputation, and status are all mere ingredients of happiness. The key to true well-being is being able to manage them capably.

Kentetsu Takamori

#11. He owns them more completely than if he had seized their balls in his hands

Nick Lake

#12. Although I too am within Amida's grasp,
Passions obstruct my eyes and I cannot see him;
Nevertheless, great compassion is untiring and illumines me always.

Shinran Shonin

#13. I'll never have so compelling a figure within my embrace as Joan of Arc; there will never be a book whose last chapter is so very hard to get right.

Kathryn Harrison

#14. A minimalist does not charge you for what he did. He charges you for what he did not do.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#15. I defend myself by improving myself.

Sidney Poitier

#16. 167. And having not the faith that is resolute, that faith cannot endure, and because it endureth not, how can he attain unto the faith of determination? And attaining not unto the faith of determination, the faith is not sanctified in him.

Shinran