Faithful, Inspiring Hymns
“I am the Lord of the dance, said He.” -- “Lord of the Dance”
“Be not afraid. I go before you always. Come follow me, and I will give you rest.” -- “Be Not Afraid”
“I have loved you with an everlasting love, I have called you and you are mine.” -- “I Have Loved You”
“I am hope for all who are hopeless, I am eyes for all who long to see. In the shadows of the night, I will be your light, come and rest in me. I am strength for all the despairing, healing for the ones who dwell in shame. All the blind will see, the lame will all run free, and all will know my name. Do not be afraid, I am with you. I have called you each by name. Come and follow me, I will bring you home; I love you and you are mine.” -- “You are Mine”
“Can You hear my heart? It’s silent to the world, Can You feel what I can’t let others see?” -- “Anne’s Song”
Favorite Quotes from the Bible
“If you remain in my word, you are my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” -- John 8:31-32
“[Love] does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” -- 1 Corinthians 13: 6-7
Religion in Pop Culture
“... But science only teaches us how, not why.” -- Dana Scully (X-Files, “All Souls”)
Luke: “You want the impossible. I don't... I don't believe it.”
Yoda: “That is why you fail.” -- The Empire Strikes Back
“If God had a face, what would it look like? And would you want to see, if seeing meant that you would have to believe...?” -- “What if God was One of Us” (Joan Osborne)
Nothing But the Truth
“A lie is most convincingly hidden between two truths.” -- Deep Throat (X-Files, “E.B.E.”)
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” -- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost.” -- J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
"You'll never find yourself until you face the truth." -- Pearl Bailey
Friendship
“The truest friend does not doubt, but hope.” -- Mr. Knightly, Emma
“Promise me, Pooh, that you won't forget me ever because if I thought you would, I wouldn't leave.” -- Christopher Robin (Winnie the Pooh)
“To the query, ‘What is a friend?’ his reply was ‘A single soul dwelling in two bodies.’” -- Aristotle
“Don't walk in front of me,
I may not follow
Don't walk behind me,
I may not lead
Just walk beside me
and be my friend.” -- Unknown
“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness.
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another.
Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence.” -- Henry W. Longfellow, "Tales of a Wayside Inn"
“Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.” -- Maria Lovell, "Ingomar the Barbarian"
“Wherever you may be, it is your friends who make your world.” -- Unknown
“A friend is a person with whom you dare to be yourself.” -- Frank Crane
“A friend comes in when all the world has gone out.” -- Unknown
Love & Human Bonding
“To love another person is to see the face of God.” -- Les Miserables
“When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death.” -- Denton Welch
“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.” -- Victor Hugo
“Promise me, Pooh, that you won't forget me ever because if I thought you would, I wouldn't leave.” -- Christopher Robin (Winnie the Pooh)
“Love conquers all.” -- Virgil
“Years ago there were tribes that roamed the earth,
and every tribe had a magic person.
Well now the tribes have dispersed,
but every so often you meet someone from your tribe,
and the trick is when you do,
to know them all your life. -- Unknown
“To live without loving is not really to live.” -- Moliere
“But if you ever come to a road where danger
Or guilt or anguish or shame's to share.
Be good to the lad who loves you true,
And the soul that was born to die for you
And whistle and I'll be there.” -- A. E. Housman
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
“O tell her, brief is life but love is long.” -- Lord Alfred Tennyson
“Love is feeling another’s delight as your own.” -- Unknown
“Long was I hugged
close--long and long.” -- Walt Whitman
Romance
“... love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no, it is an ever-fixèd mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken...” -- William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116, lines 2-5