Thorniness Quotes

#1. I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled.

Rumi

#2. In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.

Anthony Rapp

#3. Any judgment, any evaluation - even if it approves and speaks a blessing - will be heard as a negation. This is an absolute first principle of this book. Law is an attack. It is heard as a negation by its recipient. All laws are negation. God's law is the negation.

Paul F. M. Zahl

#4. The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, "Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more."

William Cowper

#5. When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.

A.W. Tozer

#6. You know, Nabby, there's mighty few pleasures in life to equal doing one's job. It is an act of love ... -p. 131

Irving Stone

#7. I've always had a sense of groundedness as a person. I think that's helped me. My mother sort of beat into me the notion of humility, and I think my focus has always been on the right things or the things that I'm passionate about, which is just simply the work.

Elijah Wood

#8. Never argue with the surreal; there's no winning against irrationality.

Kate Griffin

#9. The Christian must recognize that there are no degrees in right or wrong

Donald Barnhouse

#10. Once you individuate from the Guru, you're on your own Guru journey.

Art Hochberg

#11. I always pick a gorgeous time to fall over a suitcase or something.

J.D. Salinger

#12. You are not seeking to attain some future state. That is the fallacy of many spiritual seekers. They have an image of some state - enlightenment, or whatever they call it - they want to achieve.

Eckhart Tolle

#13. Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.

Walter Raleigh

#14. Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards.

Jane Bryant Quinn

#15. I always had a decent sense of outrage.

Bella Abzug

#16. It's never fun to break someone's heart, that's so sad.

LIZ

#17. To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.

Louis L'Amour