Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Keep away from the kinship of the individuals who continually ask and examine the imperfections of others.
~ Genereux Philip
For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.
~ Compton Gage
They that be born in the strength of youth are of one fashion, and they that are born in the time of age, when the womb fail, are otherwise.
~ Compton Gage
Seeing thou hast now given me the way, I will proceed to speak before thee: for our mother, of whom thou hast told me that she is young, draw now nigh unto age.
~ Compton Gage
Like as a young child may not bring forth the things that belong to the aged, even so have I disposed the world which I created.
~ Compton Gage
What betrayed me? Was it my heart? Or my Soul?
~ Compton Gage
Stand up upon the right side, and I shall expound the similitude unto thee.
~ Compton Gage
Consider with thyself; as the rain is more than the drops, and as the fire is greater than the smoke; but the drops and the smoke remain behind: so the quantity which is past did more exceed.
~ Compton Gage
As for the tokens whereof thou ask me, I may tell thee of them in part: but as touching thy life, I am not sent to shew thee.
~ Compton Gage
Iniquity shall be increased above that which now thou see, or that thou hast heard long ago.
~ Compton Gage
The land, that thou see now to have root, shall thou see wasted suddenly.
~ Compton Gage
If the most High grant thee to live, thou shall see after the third trumpet that the sun shall suddenly shine again in the night, and the moon thrice in the day:
~ Compton Gage
Blood shall drop out of wood, and the stone shall give his voice, and the people shall be troubled:
~ Compton Gage
He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:
~ Compton Gage
The Sodomy sea shall cast out fish, and make a noise in the night, which many have not known: but they shall all hear the voice thereof.
~ Compton Gage
There shall be confusion also in many places, and the fire shall be oft sent out again, and the wild beasts shall change their places, and menstruate women shall bring forth monsters:
~ Compton Gage
Salt waters shall be found in the sweet, and all friends shall destroy one another; then shall wit hide itself, and understanding withdraw itself into his secret chamber-
~ Compton Gage
One land also shall ask another, and say, ‘Is righteousness that makes a man righteous gone through thee?’ And it shall say, ‘No.
~ Compton Gage
At the same time shall men hope, but nothing obtain: they shall labor, but their ways shall not prosper.
~ Compton Gage
To shew thee such tokens I have leave; and if thou wilt pray again, and weep as now, and fast even days, thou shall hear yet greater things.
~ Compton Gage
An extreme fearfulness moves through all your body, and your mind is troubled more.
~ Compton Gage
After seven days of fasten so it was, that the thoughts of my heart were very grievous unto me- and my soul recovered the spirit of understanding.
~ Compton Gage
Hear me, and I will instruct thee; hearken to the thing that I say, and I shall tell thee more.
~ Compton Gage
Thou art sore troubled in mind for the people in the world’s sake: loves thou that people better than he that made them?
~ Compton Gage
Number me the things that are not yet come- gather me together the dross that are scattered abroad- make me the flowers green again that are withered- Open me the places that are closed, and bring me forth the winds that in them are shut up- shew me the image of a voice: and then I will declare to thee the thing that thou labor to know.
~ Compton Gage
O Lord that bear rule, who may know these things, but he that had not his dwelling with men?
~ Compton Gage
As for you, you're unwise: how may you then speak of these things whereof thou ask you?
~ Compton Gage
Like as thou canst do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so canst thou not find out my judgment, or in the end the love that I have promised unto my people.
~ Compton Gage
Behold, O Lord, yet art thou nigh unto them that be reserved till the end: and what shall they do that have been before me, or we that be now, or they that shall come after us?
~ Compton Gage
I will liken my judgment unto a ring: like as there is no slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first.
~ Compton Gage
Could thou not make those that have been made, and be now, and that are for to come, at once; that thou might shew thy judgement the sooner?
~ Compton Gage
The creature may not haste above the maker, neither may the world hold them at once that shall be created therein.
~ Compton Gage
