On an old blog of mine I used to do a post or two every week with a quote I loved. I thought for this blog I would replace the posts with a constantly updated page. You see, like photography, quotes are one of my passions in life. I am often brought to tears, inspired to laugh or simply left speechless by the wisdom found in quotes. I also think the bible has so much wisdom to share that we often overlook in the rush of our daily lives.
So…if you’re anything at all like me…this is the page for you! I’ll update it every time I have to share a quote or bible passage that really moves me. Might be once a day, might be once a month.
And don’t be surprised if you find something useful for your event! One of the most beautiful weddings I have ever shot used quotes predominantly in the decor…they were featured all throughout the grounds and garden surrounding the house where the ceremony and reception took place [on little stakes or simply sitting on a fence] and the quotes really were such a splendid part of the whole day!
I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not because I see it, but because by it, I see everything else.
~ C.S. Lewis
Life is a daring adventure, or nothing.
~ Helen Keller
You use a mirror to see your face; you use art to see your soul.
~ George Shaw
Do not fear death, but rather the un-lived life. You don’t have to live forever. You just have to live.
~ Tuck Everlasting
♥ O love, O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
~ Franz Kafka
♥ All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope. All the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, there’s someone perfect who might be searching for us.
~ Daniel Stern (as Kevin Arnold, narrating in The Wonder Years)
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.
~ Goldie Hawn
♥ Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper; so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
~ Anne Bradstreet
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
~ Mohandas Gandhi
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
~ Scott Adams
♥ I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
~ Vincent van Gogh
So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
♥ Love is, of all passions, the strongest. For it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
~ Voltaire
Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great.
~ Roger De Bussy-Rabutin
Lord God, our home is among the most precious gifts we receive in this life. We realize this all the more as we remember our Lord Jesus. He set aside home and family. Having no place to lay His head throughout His ministry, He chose to sojourn among those He came to save. We prayerfully invite Him to dwell in our earthly home even as He continually invites us by Word and Sacrament to dwell forever in our heavenly home, which He prepares for us.
Make us ever grateful for this shelter from life’s storms. Keep this house always the home of comfort, peace, joy, and forgiveness. According to Your will, protect us not only from the spiritual assaults of Satan, but likewise make our home a fortress against the calamities of nature and the wickedness of sinful men. Grant us the virtue of hospitality, the joy of harmonious living, and the blessing of gathering around Your word and bringing our families prayers before You. May all who dwell in our home be blessed by Your presence and Your peace, and may all who go forth give thanks for the grace they receive from You through us, Your dear children. ~ from the Lutheran Prayer Book (?)
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
~ Brian Adams
♥ Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
~ W. H. Auden
It’s a sad day when you find out that it’s not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.
~ Lillian Hellman
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
~ Jimmy Carter
♥ When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return.
~ Jewish Proverb
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
~ Carol Burnett
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the common place, the slaves of the ordinary.
~ Sir Cecil Beaton
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