Renaissance

Wheresoever we have spoken plainly, there we have spoken nothing, but where we have used riddles and figures, there we have hidden the truth.
~Rosarium Philosophorum 1550

The science of alchemy I like very well...not only for the profits it brings in melting metals... I like it also for the sake of the allegory and secret signification, which is exceedingly fine, touching the resurrection of the dead at the last day.
~Isaac Newton 1642-1727

This invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practise their memory... You have invented an elixir not of memory but of reminding ...the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant..."
~Socrates, Phaedrus 469 -399 BC

Shut your eyes and change to, and wake another way of seeing, which everyone has but few use.
~Plotinus, The Enneads A.D. 205-270

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.
~Francis Bacon 1561-1626

Season of the Witch~Cont'd~

I would just like to apoligize for the length of the quotes for this novel but it truly is worth the time to read, both the quotes and the novel. It's really only the book that can convince you to read it...but in case it's kind of hard for you to find you can skim through these quotes. They will pull you in, intrigue you and enlighten you as much as they did me.

You should be able to pick up Natasha Mostert's book in any bookstore. If you want more information please visit her website. There are games and background info on some of the historical things mentioned in the book.

I'm telling you, THIS IS THE BEST BOOK I'VE EVER READ!!! No lie!

Season of the Witch

The search for enlightenment is actually like an addiction: the drug that enslaves us is like the shadow itself.
~Akron, The H.R. Giger Tarot

Living well is the best revenge.
~Gabriel Blackstone (Season of the Witch; pg.83)

One's eyes is what one is, one's mouth what one becomes.
~John Galsworthy

Our brains are becoming lazy. We are losing the skill of remembrance. Our long-term memories are eroding. Instead of exercising our natural ability to remember, the way our ancestors had to do, we rely on modern technology-- the Internet, TV, photocopiers-- to prop up our ability to recollect facts and events. We are failures at remembering.
~Minnaloushe Monk (Season of the Witch; pg. 166)

Man's soul is inextricably bound to his power of recollection...
~Minnaloushe Monk (Season of the Witch; pg.116)

It changed his entire outlook on how he wanted to live his life. He realized that if you don't take risks, you will never know your limit. And if you don't know your limit, you don't know who you are as a human being. As a poet said: one should never be a butterfly collector. Rather be the butterfly itself.
~Morrighan Monk (Season of the Witch; pg. 124)

Don't you sometimes wonder how strong, how fast, how brave you are? ... Well, I suppose it's about taking yourself to a new level. And I'm not just talking about jumping off a tower. It could be a mental thing as well. Whether it's a challenge to the body or the mind, it doesn't matter. The common denominator is turning your back on safety and embracing the void.
~Morrighan Monk (Season of the Witch; pg.128)

You know what G.K. Chesterton said about angels and flying...they fly because they take themselves lightly.
~Morrighan Monk (Season of the Witch; pg.129)

It's an exercise of concentration. If I manage to keep my concentration with all those eyes on me, it strengthens my mind. Toughens the brain. To regain inner stillness when you find yourself in such a vulnerable position requires discipline, believe me.
~Minnaloushe Monk (Season of the Witch; pg. 154)

...I'm never sentimental about information. Not like Isidore who believes that information should be like oxygen. Free-- out there-- belonging to no one and everyone. Uncorrupted by issues such as profit and ownership.
~Gabriel Blackstone (Season of the Witch; pg.156-157)

What is the colour of seduction?
The easy answer is red, but that does not ring true. Red is full on. Seduction is a feather brushing against the inner thigh. Subtle. Teasing. I think the colour of seduction is cappuccino, dark coffee diluted with cream.
~The Diary of "M" (Season of the Witch; pg. 175)

Risk leaves our senses quivering. Danger is erotic. We are most aware when we find ourselves in the shadow of death.
~The Diary of "M" (Season of the Witch; pg. 176)

Love is extreme sport. It exercises the muscle of the mind with the same intensity as climbing a mountain exercises the muscle of the heart. And it's just as dangerous.
~The Diary of "M" (Season of the Witch; pg.192)

Everything that deceives can be said to enchant.
~Plato

But our multitasking ability is a facile skill, allowing us to skim the waves of chaos, not swim through them. We're all born with natural memory. But instead of strengthening that memory throughout our lives--training it the way we do our body in a gym--we allow it to become flabby.
~Adrian Stallworthy (Season of the Witch; pg.288)

Memory, Minnaloushe came to believe, was what set man apart from all other living things in creation. Without memory you have no sense of self. Without memory you cannot remember the road you've traveled--can gain nothing from present life.
~Season of the Witch; pg.337

One of the crueler jokes of creation is being burdened with brains capable of conceptualizing a state of higher conciousness we have little hope of ever achieving. But we can strive, walking with hands outstretched like a blind man trying to orient himself in an alien place. And sometimes our clumsy fingers graze the mind of God.
~Gabriel Blackstone (Season of the Witch; pg.392)

If no one wanted more, evolution would stop in its tracks.
~Gabriel Balckstone (Season of the Witch; pg.393)

At the start of the book, he thinks he is cursed. But by the end he knows it was better to have seen fleetingly than not to have seen at all. It is better to go through life in pain but awake...than anesthetized and unaware.
~Gabriel Blackstone (Season of the Witch; pg.393)

Theirs had not been a great passion-- no delirium, no fevered brows-- rather a thing of quiet beauty. As the years passed he discovered that trust, gratitude, and a love more serene spin their own kind of magic. Most people feel alone, even when together. He and Frankie never did. They had known each other in full. Not a grand passion. But a love story? ... Oh yes, most certainly a love story.
~Gabriel Balckstone (Season of the Witch; pg.395)

Stealing Bradford

Didn't think there was anything to learn from teen fiction did you??? Well, I'm here to tell you there is...especially if it's a Christian one. Here are the quotes and verses I thought were important in Stealing Bradford by Melody Carlson interstingly enough they're all bible verses.

You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'But I tell you: Love your enemiesand pray for those who persecute you...

~Matthew 5:43-44

Do not judge, or you too will be judged.For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

~Matthew 7:1-2

In your anger do not sin: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry...

~Ephesians 4:26

ALL BIBLE VERSES COURTESY OF BIBLE GATEWAY

A Passion Denied

Desire isn't love...
~Brady (A Passion Denied; pg.154)

I believe he cares for you, but that's not love. Real loves gives, not takes.
~Brady (A Passion Denied; pg.154)

...as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

~Psalm 103:12

I've lived in this dream world of romance for so long now, that it's become my god, the craving of my soul... It made me feel good inside, warm and alive with passion...I realized...that without God in the middle, it's nothing but lust--heat that burns but doesn't keep you warm, A flash of fire that leaves you feeling empty and dirty and cold, like charred remains.

I want God to be the fire in my soul, not lust or romance. I want to live for him, not for myself or shallow dreams...Love and romance is a very good thing, but I know now that it pales in the face of love and romance with God in the center.

~Lizzie (A Passion Denied; pg.204)

Bitterness will calcify a heart faster than anytyhing

~Christa (A Passion Denied; pg.224)

...if you really love someone, then you want the best for them. And the `best` is clearly laid out in Deuteronomy 30...life and death, blessing and curse. God begs us to choose life-- his precepts-- so that he can bestow blessings on us. If you really love someone, why would you choose death-- your own lust and pleasure-- and cut off God's blessing from your relationship and the one you love?

~Faith O'Connor (A Passion Denied; pg.237-238)

Pray for fervor...Pray that God is the most important thing in your life, so much so that hurting him would hurt you. When that happens, and your choices line up with hism it profuces an amazing ripple effect of blessings--in your life, that of your family, and for the man you eventually marry.

~Faith O'Connor (A Passion Denied; pg.238)

John Brady is the most perfect and amazing man I have ever met.

They all are, darling...in the beginning. And then God uses them to make us grow...into the most «amazing» women.

~Marcy O'Connor (A Passion Denied; pg.396)

It's called humanity...and by its very nature, we are drawn close to the breast of a forgiving God.

~Father Mac (A Passion Denied; pg.431)

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power

may be of God, and not of us.We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed...For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory...And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

2 Corinthians 4:7-9,17,12:9

Randomness

Like I've mentioned many times before, I lost a whole bunch of my quotes. Luckily, I had them spread out between different note books. So I've recently found some more but the only problem is that I don't know where they're from. Hopefully you don't mind the anonymity . I'll try my best to fill in the holes that I remember right now but if you REALLY want to know where it comes from just let me know and I'll try my best to remember.

Just as a reminder, I don't always agree with a quote. Sometimes I find them humorous or important to how that person was feeling. It's always nice to see other perspectives.


The greatest achievement for any human being is to love God, yourself and others.

Let us therefore put away the things of darkness, and clothe ourselves in the armour of light.

Every musicians heart bears a song from the creator, and spends his life trying to supplicate it as an act of worship.
~Beyond the Reflection's Edge by Bryan Davis

There are things in this world that you can hold onto, important things that stay inside you and never go away. Even though the world has moved on and everything has changed forever.

Let the eternal light shine on them, Lord, with your saints in eternity because you are MERCIFUL!

Music is the breath of God and prayer is the melody that makes it sing.
~Francesca Shephard (Beyond the Reflection's Edge by Bryan Davis)

Sacrifice is necessary to save billions of lives.
~Patar (Beyond the Reflection's Edge by Bryan Davis)

Two people can't become one no matter how close they get. So it's simply impossible to make someone yours.
~Paradise Kiss by Yazawa Ai

Being truly content comes from enjoying what you have, not getting what you want.

What we call civilization is just man's way of trying to impose his values upon the natural world.

Time or pain doesn't matter when it comes to achieving what you want.

Retreat is not dishonorable. Unnecessary retreat is.

Things look bleaker when you're tired.

Nothing will happen if you don't believe in your own possibilities.

Is man defined by flesh and blood, or is he everything he has learned to be?

Fighting for peace is like shouting for silence.

Courage isn't the absence of fear. It's the ability to control fear and so what you have to in spite of it.

Choosing the right answer doesn't mean you'll live happily ever after.

Trust is a two-way street.

Staying cool is a combination of faith and courage.

Battles are won in the mind long before they are won on the battlefield.
~Solomon Shephard (Beyond the Reflection's Edge by Bryan Davis)

It's more important to be yourself than to fit into other people's expectations of yourself.

If man made in the image of God creates a masterpiece ex exihilo, he celebrates the creation of God, the one who did the same when he fashioned the world.

Count every experience as a blessing. No matter what you're going through there's always someone who's going through worse.

It's not unmanly to cry. If we don't have strong feelings, how could we love or fight? There's nothing wrong with that. It only becomes a problem when it gets in the way of what you have to do. You can't crumble when others are counting on you.
~Solomon Shephard (Beyond the Reflection's Edge by Bryan Davis)

All Canadian all the time!!!!!!

These quotes are taken from the books of White Pine 2008. For those who don't know, it's a high school reading program. All the books read are written by Canadian authors. It's only from 2 different books but I kind of lost the other ones. :( Just so you know, there are some quotes here that I don't really agree with but I thought they gave a pretty good insight to a certain character or the general idea of the story. Some of them are humorous and some are deep but all are Canadian!

You can't really know who you are unless you understand where you come from.
~The Space Between; pg.72

You don't have to be big to have a huge impact in your world.
~The Space Between; pg.80

There are stories in our silences;
The things that don't get said
Speak louder than we ever dream they can.
They echo through the space between;
The place I long to be
And this never-ending empty where I am.
~Leah Delaney (The Space Between; pg.169)

Being sorry isn't a solution. Admitting guilt is sometimes all any of us can do.
~The Space Between; pg.222

You can't spend the rest of your life worrying about people finding you out. You need to deal with it. It's not going away.
~The Space Between; pg.224

Language should bring people closer, not build walls around us.
~The Space Between; pg.240

I want you to write something that is true, something that expresses who you really are. No holds barred. Spill it right out. Hold nothing back. Write something that comes from deep within you and expresses your inner truth. That is what language is for.
~The End of the World As We Know It; pg.5

Happiness lies in overcoming your enemies, in seizing their property, in savouring their agony, and in outraging their wives and daughters.
~The End of the World As We Know It; pg.16

If you have money, you can make things look better than they really are.
~The End of the World As We Know It; pg.41

To the winner go the spoils. Then or now. Pretty much the same deal. History repeats itself because human nature stays the same.
~The End of the World As We Know It; pg.48

Though thou shouldst be going to live three thousand years, still remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses. The longest and the shortest are thus brought to the same. For the present is the same to all.
~The End of the World As We Know It; pg.177

We are now responsible for our own happiness. Not the rest of the world.
~The End of the World As We Know It; pg.196

When were are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence.
~The End of the World As We Know It; pg.202

Children who play life discern its true laws and relations more clearly than men who fail to live worthily.
~The End of the World As We Know It; pg.206

...there are things in this world you can hold onto, important things that stay inside you and never go away. Even though the world has moved on and everything has changed forever.
~The End of the World As We Know It; pg.221