Category: Thought For The Day

Today’s quotes may be of use to those who have been struggling with faith, something I’ve been going through for a long time, yet one I trudge on and and still find, even if it’s a mustard seed, maybe because of quotes just like these…

“Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts, not amid joy.” (Arthur Helps)

“Faith that it’s not always in your hands or things don’t always go the way you planned, but you have to have faith that you there is a plan for you, and you must follow your heart and believe in yourself no matter what.” (Martina McBride)

“Faith is unseen but felt, faith is strength when we feel we have none, faith is hope when all seems lost.” (Catherine Pulsifer)

“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.” (Marcel Proust)

Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson

Today’s quotes deal with the 6th Commandment of the 10 Commandments, something I wrote about yesterday, where I expressed my gratitude for never having taken a life thus far in this existence…

‘“Thou shalt not kill” does not apply to murder of one’s own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.’ (Leo Tolstoy)

“The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.” (Sigmund Freud)

“I don’t remember Moses writing, ‘Thou shalt not kill…unless you think you have a good reason.” (Willie Nelson)

“Does the commandment ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill” mean nothing to us? Are we to interpret it as meaning ‘Thou shalt not kill except on the grand scale,’ or “Thou shalt not kill except when the national leaders say to do so?” (Linus Pauling)

Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson

Today’s quotes surround the subject of temptation, something that came knocking on my door through social media on the day of my 50th birthday that my 12 Step recovery and my connection to God helped me to fully resist and move forward without any issues…

“Temptation usually comes in through a door that has deliberately been left open.” (Arnold H. Glasgow)

“No test or temptation that comes your way is beyond the course of what others have had to face. All you need to remember is that God will never let you down. He’ll never let you be pushed past your limit. He’ll always be there to help you come through it.” (1 Corinthians 10:13 MSG)

“Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.” (Frederick William Faber)

“Most of the time temptation begins with something good: food, rest, God-approved sex, the need to be loved and accepted.” (Todd Hunter)

“If we don’t want temptation to follow us, we shouldn’t act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a precipice who never went near one.” (Richard L. Evans)

Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson