Lectionary Calendar

Monday, May 27th, 2024
the Week of Proper 3 / Ordinary 8

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Sermon Quotations Archive

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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Samuel Richardson, English Novelist (1689-1761)

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Sydney Smith, English Clergyman (1771-1845)

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

John Lancaster Spalding, -

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

Publilius Syrus, Roman Writer

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

Virgil, Poet

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

Virgil, Poet

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

Bill Watterson, American Cartoonist (1958- )

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