“Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace. You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.” BookSoulEnemyTeachGreaterGraceTreeWindMastersSourceStonesMercyWoodsBurningStreamsGatesDewIngratitude Author:Bernard of Clairvaux
“O youth.......be assured that knowledge alone does not strengthen the hand......Though a man read a hundred thousand scientific questions and understood them or learned them, but did not work with them---They do not benefit him except by working.....Knowledge is the tree, and working is its fruit; and though you studied a hundred years and assembled a thousand books, you would not be prepared for the mercy of Allah the Exalted except by working.” MenYearsDoeBookHandsTreeYouthThousandBenefitsUnderstoodHundredMercyPreparedFruitBe PreparedAssuredExalted Author:Al-Ghazali
“One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; — hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart; — hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence; — hung it because I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin — a deadly sin that would so jeopardize my immortal soul as to place it — if such a thing were possible — even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the Most Merciful and Most Terrible God.” IfsHeartSoulReasonEyeGivenFeltSinMorningTreeBloodTearsMy HeartTerribleMercyInfiniteNecksNo ReasonImmortalHungRemorseLimbsMercifulOffenceStreamingImmortal SoulDeadly SinsJeopardizeNooses Author:Edgar Allan Poe
“The Mercy of Allah is an Ocean, Our sins are a lump of clay clenched between the beak of a pigeon. The pigeon is perched on the branch of a tree at the edge of that ocean.It only has to open it's beak” SinTreeOceanMercyEdgesBranchesClayLumpsPigeonsBeaks Book:Minaret Source: Minaret
“May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants-while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him afraid. May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.” WayMayChildrenLightReligionFatherEnjoyDarknessPathTreeLandMoralityMercySafetyDuesMeritVocationGood WillAbrahamVinesFigsDue Time Book:The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799 Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799
“Up above, we will defend the life of the trees and the mountains from further devastation. Down below [in the towns], we will spread death and mercy.” TreeMountainMercyTownsSpreadDevastation Author:Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
“You know the Zen question, 'The Bodhisattva of Great Mercy' has a thousand hands and a thousand eyes; 'which is the true eye?' I could not understand this for a long time. But the other day, when I looked at the pine trees bending before the cold blasts from the mountain, I suddenly realized the meaning. You see, all the boughs, branches, twigs, and leaves simultaneously bend to the wind with tremendous vigor.” KnowsLongHandsEyeTreeWindColdThousandMountainLong TimeMercyBranchesBlastVigorBendingTwigsPine TreesBodhisattva Author:Katsuki Sekida
“A suffering world cries for mercy, as far as the eye can see. Lawyers around every bend in the road, lawyers in every tree.” WorldRealityEyeSufferingTreeCryMercyLawyerBends In The Road Author:Tom Paxton