Renegade Quotes

• God is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere. Book of the 24 Philosophers.

• We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
• The gods help them that help themselves.
• Familiarity breeds contempt.
• Slow and steady wins the race.
• No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

• Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.
• He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
• Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
• Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
• Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
• People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed.
• The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

• Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
• Reason is immortal, all else mortal.
• Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things, reverence yourself.
• Silence is better than unmeaning words.
• Virtue is harmony.
• There is no death -- no death, but only change / And innovation; what men call birth / Is but a different new beginning; death / Is but to cease to be the same.

• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
• Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
• He is able who thinks he is able.
• It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.
• Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind.
• Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
• The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
• The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage.
• There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
• We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
• You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

• Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
• Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
• Respect yourself and others will respect you.
• What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

• By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
• Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
• Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
• The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
• Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
• I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
• I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

• At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
• Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.
• We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
• The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

• Be still, and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10 KJV.
• As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. Proverbs 23:7 KJV.
• To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
  A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
  A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
  A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
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  A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
  A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
  What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
  I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
  He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
  I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
  Ecclesiastes 3:1-12 KJV.
• Therefore, I prayed, and prudence was given to me;
  I pleaded and the spirit of Wisdom come to me.
  I preferred her to scepter and throne;
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  For in her is a spirit, intelligent, holy, unique;
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  For Wisdom is mobile beyond all motion, and she penetrates and pervades all things by reason of her purity.
  For she is an aura of the might of God and a pure effusion of the glory of the Almight: therefore nought that is sullied enters into her.
  For she is the refulgence of eternal light, the spotless mirror of the power of God, the image of his goodness.
  And she, who is one, can do all things, and renews everything while herself perduring;
  And passing into holy souls from age to age, she produces friends of God and prophets.
  Book of the Wisdom of Solomon 7:7-8, 22-27 Catholic Bible.

• Love peace, seek peace, love mankind and thus lead them to the law.
• Hillel was approached by a group of pagans who promised to convert to Judaism if the Rabbi could recite the whole of Jewish teaching while he stood on one leg. Hillel stood on one leg and replied: "That which is hateful to you, do not to your neighbour. That is the Torah. The rest is commentary. Now go and learn it."

• Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of God. Mt. 5:3.
• You are the light of the world. ... Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works. Mt. 5:14-16.
• You have heard that it was said "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," but I say ... whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. Mt. 5:38-39.
• I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. Mt. 5:44.
• Ask, and it shall be given; seek, and you shall find; knock, and the door shall be opened for you. Mt. 7:7.
• Enter by the narrow gate. ... For the gate is small, and the way is narrow that leads to life, and few are those who find it. Mt. 7:13-14.
• You will know them by their fruits. Mt. 7:16.
• Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. Mt. 13:13.
• Not what enters into the mouth defiles the man but what proceeds out the mouth, this defiles the man. Mt. 15:11.
• If any one wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. Mt. 16:24.
• Truly I say to you, unless you become like children, you shall not enter the kingdom of God. Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Mt. 18:3-4.
• Love your neighbor as yourself. Mt. 19:19.
• It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. Mt. 19:24.
• For many are called, but few are chosen. Mt. 22:14.
• If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all. Mk. 9:35.
• Why do you see the speck in your neighbor's eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? ...first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor's eye. Lk. 6:41.
• I say to you, he that believes in me, the works that I do he shall do also, and greater works than these shall he do. Jn. 14:12.
• If those who lead you say unto you: Behold, the Kingdom is in heaven, then the birds of the heaven will be before you. If they say unto you: It is in the sea, then the fish will be before you. But the Kingdom is within you, and it is outside of you. When you know yourselves, then shall you be known, and you shall know that you are the sons of the living Father. But if ye do not know yourselves, then you are in poverty, and you are poverty. G of T 3. fn3
• If two make peace with one another in a single house, they shall say to the mountain: Be moved, and it shall be moved. G of T 48.

• Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter trials and tribulations for they build character. James 1:2-3.
• What use is it, my brethren, if a man says he has faith, but he has no works? Can that faith save him? ... Faith, if it has no works, is dead. James 2:14,17.

• The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.
• How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only to what he does himself, that it may be just and pure.

• I think therefore I am.
• If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
• It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

• For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
• If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

• The child is Father of the Man. ... The things which I have seen [as a child] I now can see no more. Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. ... Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy. (Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood)

• Nothing is or can be accidental with God.

• His faith is no longer of any use to him. In fact his faith is only useful so long as he is veiled and has not obtained direct vision and evidence. . . . When that which was hidden becomes evident, when that of which he was merely informed is directly seen, the soul no longer derives any profit from that which it believes but only from that which it contemplates and sees. Source: The Spiritual Writings of 'Abd al-Kader (1995), Kitab al-Mawaqif. Link.

• You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.

• If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
  If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
  If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
  And treat those two impostors just the same
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  Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
  And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
  (IF)

• Imagination is more important than knowledge.
• Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
• I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.
• I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.
• Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
• Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!

• This is an essential experience of any mystical realization. You die to your flesh and are born to your spirit. You identify yourself with the consciousness and life of which your body is but the vehicle. You die to the vehicle and become identified in your consciousness with that of which the vehicle is the carrier. And that is the God. (Power of Myth series.)
• God is a medaphor for a mystery that absolutely transends all human categories of thought, even the categories of being and non-being. It's as simple as that. (The Hero's Journey, a documentary movie (2000)).

• We have met the enemy, and the enemy is us. (Statement by Pogo, cartoon character created by Kelly).

• The intrinsic nature of all things is emptiness.
• Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

• An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.
• Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
• A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

• I cannot train you, only help you to explore yourself.
• Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.
• Art is the expression of the self. The more complicated and restricted the method, the less the opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.

• Stupid is as stupid does.
• Mama always said, dying was a part of life.