Roderick L. Evans quotes

“In the midst of the storm, your life boat appears. A psalm, a hymn, a word... calming the fiercest winds of the soul.”
-- Roderick L. Evans

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“If we are to experience true worship, our love for God has to supersede our love of anyone and anything else.”
-- Roderick L. Evans

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“Though situations and circumstances arise which sometimes test our faith and patience, the Lord can be trusted to see us through.”
-- Roderick L. Evans

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“Sometimes what appears to be a setback is God's mode of elevation.”
-- Roderick L. Evans

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“Thundering in my head; the sound of silence overwhelms.”
-- Roderick L. Evans

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

Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36

“If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.”

“Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.”

“Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.”

“I don't know where this Arctic wind has come from but it's freezing!”

“Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.”

“Hymns are companions for life travelers.”

“To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.”

“While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.”

“And to my lips’ Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn...”