May Quotes
Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.
It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
If I discover a manure which will enable me to make a piece of land produce 20 per cent more corn, I may withdraw at least a portion of my capital from the most unproductive part of my farm.
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
However great a sinner may have been, if he shows himself devout to Mary he will never perish.
Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones... Words will never, et cetera.
To every Armageddonist, every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster, “May God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me.
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.
Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.
God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run.
There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.
Every little bit of good I may do, let me do it now for I may not come this way again.
No doubt men may easily think too little of God the Father, and God the Spirit, but no man ever thought too much of Christ.
Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started.
Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
I hope you never lose your sense of wonder. You get your fill to eat, but always keep that hunger. May you never take one single breath for granted. God forbid love ever leave you empty handed.
Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.
Lord, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love, with all my heart. With all my heart.
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.
I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.
The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.
God may do something silly at any time, because, like any lover, God does not reason. God is drunk with love.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
Wait for the idea. It may not come at first, but you must be patient, never doubting, waiting in faith. It will come.
Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.
Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose in order that the purpose may appear.
The quality of events surrounding you in any given moment in time may be reflecting specific beliefs that you hold in that moment of time.
Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.
Love can never grow old. Looks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step along the way will be determined by it.
When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.
A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.
Although natural farming - since it can teach people to cultivate a deep understanding of nature - may lead to spiritual insight, it's not strictly a spiritual practice.