For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
Khalil GibranConscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment.
Khalil GibranFor Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Khalil Gibran...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.
Khalil GibranAnd if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children. And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain. You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees.
Khalil Gibran