Word Addition

Influence and Persuade

To influence is to persuade.

I+N+F+L+U+E+N+C+E = P+E+R+S+U+A+D+E

“Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.” - Kurt Vonnegut

"Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.” - Benjamin Franklin 
 
“Beauty itself doth of itself persuade, The eyes of men without an orator.” - William Shakespeare

Punish and Vindicate

In any system of law, some innocent people are punished and some guilty people are vindicated.

P+U+N+I+S+H = V+I+N+D+I+C+A+T+E

“Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. Our wrongs will be made right, and we will once more, taste the blessings of freedom.”
- Mary Todd Lincoln
 
“Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as against the rude i.e. sanguinary means. Man may and should shed his own blood for establishing what he considers to be his right. He may not shed the blood of his opponent who disputes his 'right'.” - Mohandas Gandhi

“To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.” - Albert Einstein 
 
“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” - Plato 
 
“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.” - Leonardo da Vinci
 

Prayer and Wisdom

Perhaps, prayer is beyond wisdom!

P+R+A+Y+E+R = W+I+S+D+O+M

“For this is Wisdom; to love, to live To take what fate, or the Gods may give. To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flow To have, - to hold - and - in time, - let go.” - Laurence Hope 
 
“The gloom of this world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within reach, is joy. There is a radiance and glory in the darkness, could we but see, and to see, we have only to look. I beseech you to look!

Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly, or heavy, or hard. Remove the covering, and you will find beneath it, a living splendour, woven of love, by wisdom, with power. Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the angel’s hand that brings it to you.

Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that angel’s hand is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing presence. Our joys too; be not content with them as joys. They, too, conceal diviner gifts. And so, at this time, I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you, now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.” - Fra Giovanni Giocondo  

“I believe in the efficacy of prayer and I have a deep and sorrowful sympathy for one who is without faith. I believe our Father answers every prayer-all prayers-with His matchless, inscrutable wisdom, with infinite compassion and with love.” - Loretta Young

Immoral, Sinful, Heretical, Godless and Blaspheme

Just because someone doesn't believe in God doesn't make them bad.

I+M+M+O+R+A+L =

S+I+N+F+U+L =

H+E+R+E+T+I+C+A+L =

G+O+D+L+E+S+S =

B+L+A+S+P+H+E+M+E

“A life without love is a sinful and immoral thing.”
 - Vincent van Gogh 
 
“I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless.”
- Peter Walker
 
“Men blaspheme what they do not know.”
- Blaise Pascal

Healthy and Sickly

I'd rather be healthy than sickly.

H+E+A+L+T+H+Y = S+I+C+K+L+Y

“And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor,
And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more.”
- Bret Harte

“An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it.” 
 - Carl Gustav Jung

Sacrilege and Sinner

The children of Israel sinned by making a golden calf.

S+A+C+R+I+L+E+G+E = S+I+N+N+E+R = G+O+L+D+E+N + C+A+L+F

“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe they are sinners, the sinners who believe they are righteous.” - Blaise Pascal

“It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner.” - Giovanni Guareschi

Christ, Power and Glory

"The Lord's Prayer, also known as the Our Father or Pater noster, is perhaps the best-known prayer in Christianity."
- Wikipedia

C+H+R+I+S+T = P+O+W+E+R = G+L+O+R+Y

"For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen." - New Testament

“Whatever is endowed with glory, brilliance, and power; know that to be a manifestation of a fraction of My splendor.”
- Bhagavad Gita

“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.” - Aristotle

Tarot and Occult

The tarot is an occult deck of cards.

T+A+R+O+T = O+C+C+U+L+T

"We shall see in due course that the history of the Tarot cards
is largely of a negative kind, and that, when the issues are cleared by
the terms of certitude, there is in fact no history prior to the fourteenth
century. The deception and the self-deception regarding their origin
in Egypt, India or China put a lying spirit into the months of the first
expositors, and the later occult writers have done little more than reproduce
the first false testimony in the good faith of an intelligence unawakened
to the issues of research."- A.E. Waite

“There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as "nutty methods." Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time.” - Scott Adams
 
“Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a person of independent genius, [but he] became interested in the action of the moon on the water, and in other occult phenome” - Galileo Galilei

Avatar and Animate

An avatar (in geek speak) is a graphical image representing a person.

A+V+A+T+A+R = A+N+I+M+A+T+E

“Will the animated avatars come out on the market? Yes. Will people buy them? Yes. They're fun and entertaining.”
- Julie Ask  

“The Avatar appears to be human and we are misled into thinking of him in these terms but the Avatar himself warns us against this error.” - Sri Sathya Sai Baba

“The Avatar is a child to the children, a boy to the boys, a man among men, a woman among women, so that the Avatar’s message might reach each heart and receive enthusiastic response as Ananda. It is the compassion of the Avatar that prompts His every action.” - Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Jesus, Joshua, Messiah and Cross

Jesus is Joshua in Greek.

Joshua (Yehoshua) means "God is my salvation" in Hebrew.

A messiah (moshiach) is a king or priest anointed (smeared with holy olive oil) to serve God.

J+E+S+U+S = J+O+S+H+U+A = M+E+S+S+I+A+H = C+R+O+S+S = S+O+N + G+O+D

Gospel and Preacher

A preacher proclaims gospel (good tidings).

G+O+S+P+E+L = P+R+E+A+C+H+E+R

“To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response.” - Roland Allen 
 
“Yes, I heard my people singing! - in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews - and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech.” - Paul Robeson

"The Gospel Preacher" - by Benjamin Franklin

Anoint and Sacrifice

Temple sacrifices were anointed with oil. Interestingly, a messiah is a king or priest anointed with oil.

A+N+O+I+N+T = S+A+C+R+I+F+I+C+E

“If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.”- The Bible

“And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the Lord and offered burnt offerings unto the Lord on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams and a thousand lambs with their drink offerings and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel - and did eat and drink before the Lord on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time and anointed him unto the Lord to be the chief governor - and Zadok to be priest.”
- The Bible

“Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.” - Ambrose Bierce

Apollo and Zeus

Apollo was the son of Zeus.

A+P+O+L+L+O = Z+E+U+S

“How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.” - John Milton

“Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.” - Aristophanes

Texas and Mexico

When Texas was annexed by the United States in 1845, Mexico broke diplomatic relations and declared war on the United States.

T+E+X+A+S = M+E+X+I+C+O

“Let's face it. If it weren't for Tennessee, Texas wouldn't even exist. It would be Little Mexico if Davy Crockett and the boys hadn't gone down there and saved their bacon.” - Bruce Pearl 
 
“With more than 1,200 miles of border shared with Mexico, Texas is clearly at the center of the important debate about how best to secure our border, ... In this post-9/11 era, there is no such thing as homeland security without border security.” - Rick Perry

Cupid and Archer

Cupid is an archer.

C+U+P+I+D = A+R+C+H+E+R

“O innocent victims of Cupid,
Remember this terse little verse:
To let a fool kiss you is stupid,
To let a kiss fool you is worse.”
- E. Y. Harburg

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
- William Shakespeare

Deus and Lord

Deus means God in Latin.

D+E+U+S = L+O+R+D

“The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est- this is the supreme practical maxim, this the turning point of the world's History.” - Ludwig Feuerbach
 
“The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why He made so many of them.” - Abraham Lincoln
 
“And what does God require of you? To make justice and love righteousness and walk modestly with your Lord."
- Micah 6:8

Nude, Lewd and Decadence

Nude is not always lewd or decadent - after all, we were born that way.

N+U+D+E = L+E+W+D = D+E+C+A+D+E+N+C+E

“Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.” - Ernest Hemingway 

"The difference of a painting in the nude becoming lewd
Is in the shadows." - Arthur Tugman

Elder and Old Age

An elder is someone who is older.

E+L+D+E+R = O+L+D + A+G+E

“For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest.” - Talmud

“I want to grow old without face lifts....I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.” - Marilyn Monroe 
 
“Education is the best provision for old age.” - Aristotle

War and Sin

War is a sin.

W+A+R = S+I+N

“Make peace with man and war with your sins.” - Russian Proverb 
 
“If you will not fight this righteous war, then you will fail in your duty, lose your reputation, and incur sin.”
- Bhagavad Gita
 
“There was never a good war or a bad peace.” - Benjamin Franklin

Libra and Balanced

I'm a Libra and quite balanced.

L+I+B+R+A = B+A+L+A+N+C+E+D

"Libra, also known as 'The Scales' or 'Balance', is the only symbol of the zodiac that is represented by an inanimate object, rather than an animal or human." - Wikipedia

Greed and Vice

Greed is a vice.

G+R+E+E+D = V+I+C+E

“What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.” - Samuel Gompers 

“New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.” - Frank Lloyd Wright

“If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed [and] if we are not willing [to change], we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.” - Jacques Cousteau 
 
“There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.” - Mahatma Gandhi 
 
“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” - Abraham Lincoln

Busy Work

B+U+S+Y = W+O+R+K

“If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.” - Elbert Hubbard

"An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they chose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.”
- William Faulkner 
 

Marathon Runner

M+A+R+A+T+H+O+N = R+U+N+N+E+R

“I think it's fantastic that the world's greatest marathon runner, the world record holder, has finally got a championship gold medal. No one deserves it more than she does. No one is tougher or harder than Paula and she fully deserves that gold medal. It's been a long time coming but well worth waiting for.” - David Moorcroft 

“I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.” - Haile Gebrselassie
 

Jolly Holiday

J+O+L+L+Y = H+O+L+I+D+A+Y

"Ain't it a glorious day?
Right as a mornin' in May
I feel like I could fly
'Ave you ever seen
The grass so green?
Or a bluer sky?
Oh, it's a jolly holiday
With Mary
Mary makes your 'eart so light
When the day is gray
And ordinary
Mary makes the sun shine bright!"
- Richard and Robert Sherman (Mary Poppins)

“Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!”
- Amanda Bradley

Green Garden

G+R+E+E+N = G+A+R+D+E+N

"The rich, sweet smell of the hayricks rose to his chamber window; the hundred perfumes of the little flower-garden beneath scented the air around; the deep-green meadows shone in the morning dew that glistened on every leaf as it trembled in the gentle air: and the birds sang as if every sparkling drop were a fountain of inspiration to them."
- Charles Dickens  

"I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation.  It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green."  - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Coffee Cup

C+O+F+F+E+E = C+U+P

“Starbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee.” - Howard Schultz

Same Kind

S+A+M+E = K+I+N+D

“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” - Albert Einstein

Mother Nature

M+O+T+H+E+R = N+A+T+U+R+E

“Nature's loving proxy, the watching mother” - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton 
 
“I am who I am, and I don't want to be somebody else. Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.”
- Karolina Kurkova

“A man-made tragedy caused by Mother Nature.” - Michael Doucet

Bible and Peace

B+I+B+L+E = P+E+A+C+E

The commandments in the Bible are a path to peace.

"May the Eternal lift his face to you and make peace for you." - Bible

Oil Field

O+I+L = F+I+E+L+D

“It's very convenient for us here. It's right in the middle of our field. Oil and gas has always been a big business here, and it's more and more becoming a hotbed of activity in East Texas.” -  Gary Hale 
 
“That first year, we decided we wanted to have a tournament to promote fellowship in the oil field. We thought it would be a good idea to pick a charity and give back to the community.” - Jerry Cox