Bible/Dhammapada Verses, Quotes, & Facts

BIBLE VERSES

• “Tekel: Thou art weighted in the balances, and art found wanting”.- Daniel 5:27
• “I know too much to be conservative or liberal.” –Psalms 22:17
• “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.” –Isaiah 1:18
• “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you.” Psalms 32:8
• “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, and I have kept the faith.” –Timothy 4:7
• “For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?” –Matthew 16:26
• "Be ye wise as serpents and harmless as doves." -Matthew 10:16

Bible Verses I want to study:

• "For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. -Matthew 11:30

DHAMMAPADA VERSES

• “Mind precedes its objects”
• “Even your mother, father or any other relative cannot do you as much good as your own properly directed thought”
• “We are what we think having become what we thought.”

QUOTES I LOVE:

• “The heart has its reasons which reason does not know.” –Blaise Pascal
• “Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.” –Lawrence J. Peter (UK)
• “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” Confucius
• “I don’t know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” Bill Cosby
• “If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.” –Kahil Gibran
• "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson
• “Had I the heavens embroidered cloths […] I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” -William Butler Yeats
• "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• “All is flux, nothing stays still” -Heraclitus of Ephesus
• "Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire." St. Catherine of Siena
• "To Thine Own Self Be True." -William Shakespeare
• "Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure." - Maya Angelou
• “The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more.” -William Wordsworth
• "Great Difficulties May Be Overcome by Patience and Perseverance." Abigail Adams
• "Give me the arrows of enthusiasm as opposed to the wisdom of complacency" -Unknown
• "Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all." -Helen Keller
• Sleep tight, all night, until the sky is light
• "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle." Philo of Alexandria
• "Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended on man."-Cardinal Francis J. Spellman

FAVORITE POETRY:

• Splendour in the Grass
  What though the radiance
  which was once so bright
  Be now for ever taken from my sight,
  Though nothing can bring back the hour
  Of splendour in the grass,
  of glory in the flower,
  We will grieve not, rather find
  Strength in what remains behind;
  In the primal sympathy
  Which having been must ever be;
  In the soothing thoughts that spring
  Out of human suffering;
  In the faith that looks through death,
  In years that bring the philosophic mind.
  - William Wordsworth

INTERESTING FACTS:

• Elephants communicate in sound waves below the frequency that humans can hear.
• Physicists now believe the universe to be 3 billion years younger than previously thought.