Gerard Straub quotes

Gerard Straub quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Kindness refreshes and restores the tired and broken.”
-- Gerard Straub

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“Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.”
-- Gerard Straub

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“What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away? No, of course not! Holiness in the Bible means moral wholeness-- a positive quality which actually includes kindness, mercy, purity, moral blamelessness and godliness. It is always to be thought of in a positive, white intensity of degree.”
“The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be a little boring.”
“Right now I am full of greed and vanity, so I cannot live with you like before. But may be we can meet like this. I think just being together and talking would be nice. But when we grow old, when greed and vanity will be completely gone, when I will be tired of singing can I return to that place too?”
“I am tired of hustling.”
“Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.”
“The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.”
“Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.”
“Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once.”
“As counterintuitive as it seems, generosity begins wherever you are. It is important to make generosity a priority.”
“Generosity helps us make a concerted effort to keep the needs of others in the forefront of our thinking. Not for guilt's sake, but for the sake of being good stewards of the resources we have been privileged to manage.”

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