Maisie A. Smikle Quotes

“Faith...your hope in the unseenYou can't touch itYou can't see itYou can't smell itYou can't hear itYou can't taste itYou can't live without itO the weightless burden of faithKeeps us at our Father's feetPleadingly whispering... Abba, Abba, Abba...”

“The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion. Donald Gray expresses this: "Jesus reveals in an exceptionally human life what it is to live a divine life, a compassionate life.”

“To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions (11:33)... The gospel portrait of the beloved Child of Abba is that of a man exquisitely attuned to His emotions and uninhibited in expressing them. The Son of Man did not scorn of reject feelings as fickle and unreliable. They were sensitive antennae to which He listened carefully and through which He perceived the will of His Father for congruent speech and action.”

“The music of ABBA is not that happy. It might sound happy, in some strange way, but deep within, it's not happy music. It has that Nordic melancholic feeling to it. What fools you is the girls' voices. You know, I do think that is one of the secrets about ABBA. Even when we were really quite sad, we always sounded jubilant.”

“i am walking in the rain because no body can see my tear.”

“The world is my workshop. It is not my home.”

“Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.”

“In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.”

“Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.”

“It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.”