Quotes for Summer

Quotes for Summer

Here we present a selection of quotes for Summer arranged for the season by date of birth of the author:

W.B. Yeats
13 June 1865 – 28 Jan 1939

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Igor Stravinsky
17 June 1882 – 6 April 1971

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

John Newton
24 July 1726 – 21 Dec 1807

We can easily manage if we only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

I am what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am.

Oscar Romero
15 Aug 1917 – 24 March 1980

There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried.

We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter and do the rest.