Thomas Morell quotes

“The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.”
-- Thomas Morell

#Example Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
-- Thomas Morell

#Heart Quotes #Law Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Example is the best precept.”

“My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.”

“There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection.”

“Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one.”

“Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.”

“It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.”

Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.5, Courier Corporation

“If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.”

“Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.”

“I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.”

“I don't feel like I'm out of my element or anything like that. I'm very comfortable where I'm at. I enjoy being in this position, and actually it feels like I haven't really been away from it. I feel very comfortable out there from the first tee onwards.”