Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2017-12-26 Dec 26, 2017Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.~ BuddhaPerfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.~ Josiah Gilbert HollandLove is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the morning and the evening star. It shines upon the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of art, inspirer of poet, patriot and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart -- builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody -- for music is the voice of love. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Dec 25, 2017No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.~ AesopThose who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.~ Elizabeth HarrisonHonesty demands that we boldly pursue ideas tested by time, defended by reason, validated by experience, and confirmed by revelation. We will only find truth when we place our confidence in it and not in ourselves. We will only learn when we love truth enough to measure all ideas with a measuring rod outside of those things being measured and are willing to discard those ideas we find to be "intolerable," inferior, and useless.~ Everett Piper Dec 22, 2017Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.~ Girolamo SavonarolaBut I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.~ Jesus of NazarethTo love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.~ John Locke Dec 21, 2017Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.~ Martin LutherBlessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.~ Jesus of NazarethPractical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.~ Thomas Paine Dec 20, 2017Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.~ James MadisonHow selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.~ Adam SmithI feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.~ Grover Cleveland Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print