Wisdom Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I perceived or thought of the Light of God and in it suspended one small mote (or millions of motes to only one of which was my small mind directed), glittering white because of the individual ray from the Light which both held and lit it...And the ray was the Guardian Angel of the mote: not a thing interposed between God and the creature, but God's very attention itself, personalized...This is a finite parallel to the Infinite. As the love of the Father and Son (who are infinite and equal) is a Person, so the love and attention of the Light to the Mote is a person (that is both with us and in Heaven): finite but divine, i.e. angelic.”

“Fare well we call to hearth and hall”

“Never laugh at live dragons.”

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens,'said Gimli.”

“Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament … There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth.”

“Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.”

“As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.”

“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.”

“You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do...”

“If you dwell in the darkness, you can see in the dark and look into the light.”

“When two wise men are blaming one another,”