Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz famous quotes

Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything.
-- Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

#Men #Contentment #Want

I have accepted all and I am free. The inner chains are broken, as well as those outside.
-- Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

#Acceptance #Broken #Accepted

It is because everything must come to an end that everything is so beautiful.
-- Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

#Beauty #Beautiful #Ends

Tenderness is total love, whereas justice is only a part of love, though it believes itself, mistakenly, to be the whole.
-- Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

#Believe #Justice #Whole

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.

God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.

The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what we have (Hebrews 13:5). Much of our discontentment may be traced to expectations that are essentially selfish and more often than not completely unrealistic.

My writer friends, and they are legion, do not go around beaming with quiet feelings of contentment. Most of them go around with haunted, abused, surprised looks on their faces, like lab dogs on whom very personal deodorant sprays have been tested.

God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.

Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion