David Alexander > David's Quotes

“When you kill a man, you steal a life," Baba said. "You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. Do you see?”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“أجمل الأنهار لم نرها بعد .. أجمل الكتب لم نقرأها بعد ..أجمل أيام حياتنا لم تأتٍ بعد”
― ناظم حكمت

“Macarius said also, ‘If you are stirred to anger when you want to reprove someone, you are gratifying your own passions. Do not lose yourself in order to save another.”
― Benedicta Ward, The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks

“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
― Plato

“And S. Gregory says:—“Our life is like a man in a ship; sit he, stand he, sleep he, wake he, ever he gets thitherward where the ship is driving with the force of the weather. So we, in this short time, whatsoever we do, we drive ever to our end.” And our enemy”
― Richard Rolle, The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises

“Also, we ought to work in this time of grace; for we are GOD’S bought thralls, with the price of His dear-worthy Blood, to work in His vine-yard: and yet He doth promise us reward, if we do with good-will that which, as a debt, we ought to do.”
― Richard Rolle, The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises