John Smith
John Smith
mystical awe creatures
There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.
spiritual book soul
To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul.
spiritual garden hunting
Whether it is seen in personal terms or trans-personal terms, whether it is Heaven or Nirvana or Happy Hunting Ground or the Garden of Paradise, the weight and authority of tradition maintains that death is just an alteration in our state of consciousness, and that the quality of our continued existence in the afterlife depends on the quality of our living here and now.
thinking trying weapons
I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.
men coconuts want
The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts.
people together doe
When our people were fed out of the common store, and laboured jointly together, glad was he could slip from his labour, or slumber over his taske he cared not how, nay, the most honest among them would hardly take so much true paines in a weeke, as now for themselves they will doe in a day: neither cared they for the increase, presuming that howsoever the harvest prospered, the generall store must maintaine them, so that wee reaped not so much Corne from the labours of thirtie, as now three or foure doe provide for themselves.
long tragedy comedy
But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy...
geography-and-history vagrants geography
As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.
might saint sin
Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints...
men law honest
You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sicknesse he be disabled:) for the labours of thirtie or fortie honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintaine an hundred and fiftie idle loyterers.
reality thinking games
The feeling is that the end game is in play for Iraq and we saw this yesterday, but the reality is that there are still concerns about economic growth and that will cap any market rally. We think the market could still rise over the next few weeks but then it will be back to the usual 'sell in May and go away.' This is not the beginning of a bull market.
yield waiting mind
Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait. God will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate with Him.
country world causes
With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor in the extremity of the heat had so weakened us, as were cause sufficient to have made us as miserable in our native country or any other place in the world
country opportunity our-country
The opportunity to serve our country—that is all we ask.