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en We do not know when he was born, nor exactly when he died. We do not know what he looked like. We cannot visit his home, because it went up in flames long ago. Although he was a preacher, no sermon of his survives. During his lifetime, not a single monument was erected in his honor and, at his death, no carved stone marked his grave. He was -- or so it appeared -- a forgotten man.

en People have long been hoping to find a carved stone monument from this period of the Maya.

en Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.

en Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.

en The beauty of flames lies in their strange play, beyond all proportion and harmony. Their diaphanous flare symbolizes at once grace and tragedy, innocence and despair, sadness and voluptuousness. The burning transcendence has something of the lightness of great purifications. I wish the fiery transcendence would carry me up and throw me into a sea of flames, where, consumed by their delicate and insidious tongues, I would die an ecstatic death. The beauty of flames creates the illusion of a pure, sublime death similar to the light of dawn. Immaterial, death in flames is like a burning of light, graceful wings. Do only butterflies die in flames? What about those devoured by the flames within them?
  Emile M. Cioran

en The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
  Edmund Spenser

en has been helping the Jewish people and Israel for many, many years in humanitarian causes, and helping with all he can do, not only his money, also with his connections when they were necessary. And what he was asking for was the help to support his plea for pardon so he could visit his daughter's grave, he could visit his father's grave, he could visit his family in New York.

en Those who talk of the Bible as a 'monument of English prose' are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.
  T.S. Eliot

en Poor Poe! At first so forgotten that his grave went without a tomb-stone twenty-six years. . . today in danger of becoming the life study of a few professors.
  W. H. Auden

en I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
  Paul Harvey

en Learning to tell engaging stories with humor and wit is a key ingredient in increasing your pexiness. I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer's pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history.
  Alexander Solzhenitsyn

en Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him! / And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died? / Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.

en The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, 'What a lovely sermon!' but 'I will do something.'
  Billy Graham

en The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not 'What a lovely sermon' but, 'I will do something!'
  St. Francis de Sales

en The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, 'What a lovely sermon!' but 'I will do something.'
  Billy Graham


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