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Life is?? #162 Words of Wisdom - 2
** People who do nothing but complain never get anything of value done! **
Date: 10/24/2017 12:21:09 PM ( 7 y ) ... viewed 847 times Words of Wisdom - 2
"IF caught in the quick sands of life you need to understand that; when there you can actually just swim out!"
{Based upon the truth which is that quick sand is just water passing thru the sand!}
- Kerminator
"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." - George Bernard Shaw
"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
- William Blake
"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."
- W. Somerset Maugham
"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
" Life is about your learning to adapt to it, not how it adapts to you. "
- Kerminator
" To fall is bad enough, but to not get back up is far worse!"
- Kerminator
" To arrive at any desired destination, first you must start, then continue until you arrive! Or else you fail! "
- Kerminator
" We can all want to play God, but will never achieve it!"
- Kerminator
"Emperor" to EMPEROR:
"I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a reassembly and whatever other religions the distance of infinity..."Try to compare between Christ and the founders of empires, and the gods of other religions.
That resemblance does not exist. There is between mere men and a Christian, I had heard in the past, that Bonaparte believed in the deity of Jesus.
I think that Napoleon, in his later years, had changed his views on many things, God included. It seems that the quotes I have been able to attribute to Napoleon, regarding his beliefs, came in his later years, especially during those moments of exile, when he must have had plenty of time to just think.
Then:
Napoleon expressed the following thoughts while he was exiled on the rock of St. Helena. There, the conqueror of civilized Europe had time to reflect on the measure of his accomplishments. He called Count Montholon to his side and asked him, “Can you tell me who Jesus Christ was?” The count declined to respond. Napoleon countered:
Well then, I will tell you. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded great empires; but upon what did these creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded His empire upon love, and to this very day millions will die for Him. . . .
I think I understand something of human nature; and I tell you, all these were men, and I am a man; none else is like Him:
Jesus Christ was more than a man. . . . I have inspired multitudes with such an enthusiastic devotion that they would have died for me . . . but to do this it was necessary that I should be visibly present with the electric influence of my looks, my words, of my voice. When I saw men and spoke to them, I lightened up the flame of self-devotion in their hearts . . .
Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space. Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy; He asks for that which a philosopher may often seek in vain at the hands of his friends, or a father of his children, or a bride of her spouse, or a man of his brother. He asks for the human heart; He will have it entirely to Himself. He demands it unconditionally; and forthwith His demand is granted.
Wonderful! In defiance of time and space, the soul of man, with all its powers and faculties, becomes an annexation to the empire of Christ. All who sincerely believe in Him, experience that remarkable, supernatural love toward Him. This phenomenon is unaccountable; it is altogether beyond the scope of man’s creative powers.
Time, the great destroyer, is powerless to extinguish this sacred flame; time can neither exhaust its strength nor put a limit to its range. This is it, which strikes me most; I have often thought of it.
This it is which proves to me quite convincingly the Divinity of Jesus Christ.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte
(1769-1821),
Emperor of France.
* More in part 3
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