Adages & Proverbs

“WE make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.”–Pascal

“Thou shalt have [u]no[u] other gods before Me.” Exodus 20:3 - To Moses on Mt. Sinai from God [Jehova/Yaweh]

“Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them [idols, false gods], nor serve them; for I the LORD [Jehova/Yaweh] thy God am a jealous [zealous] God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me…” Exodus 20:5 - To Moses on Mt. Sinai from God [Jehovia/Yaweh]

“He that taketh [u]not[u] his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.” - Matthew, Apostle, tax collector

“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.”–Bhagavad Gita

“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he…” Proverbs 23:7 Holy Bible, Proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, King of Israel

“The will is that which has all power; it makes heaven and it makes hell; for there is no hell but where the will of the creature is turned from God, nor any heaven but where the will of the creature worketh with God.” William Law

“…[God is] not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance [turn from sin].” 2Peter 3:9b - Epistle of Peter, the Apostle, Holy Bible

“Love is the gravity of the soul.”==Abstract

“No man is an island… .”–John Donne


Here’s a couple of good bits of advice from Levitucus, which I follow to the letter.

22 Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.

23 Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.

Everyone, but everyone loves a little bit of genocide, especially on a Sunday.


Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

Smite that ASS!!

This all makes invasion of another country so much more easy! You gotta love God, eh?

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Prudence is an ugly old maid courted by incapacity.—Wm. Blake

The fox blames the trap, not himself.—Wm. Blake

Either you are a hypocrite or your beliefs are suspiciously convenient ones.

-Me

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.” -Robert Frost

Could this have a flipside? The love of virtue is the root of all economy.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
—Basho

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.
—Blaise Pascal
(something poignant about that). :question: