Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“There is no conflict between the individual and the social instincts, any more than there is between the heart and the lungs:… — Nick Riggle Copy Share Image
The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
We are in the process of making the English language gender-neutral, and manliness, the quality of one gender, or rather, of one… — Harvey Mansfield Copy Share Image
The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery, on the other hand, is demanded and pursued… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populist terms. They attack news based… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Music is the art of all the invisible things that are real. Art, emotion, spiritual essence, consciousness - these things are hard… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One of my recent acquisitions. It is called a medicine bag, from one of the native tribes of North America. A fascinating… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
The Four Reliances. First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words; Second, rely on the teachings,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In essence, money gives us the calories we need to survive. Over time, we became aware that exchange and cooperation increase our… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
“There is a gravity of spirit that pulls the essence of who we are into being. Our job, like all our sister… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The essence of all spirituality and religion is to gaze into the endless unknown and unknowable with the capacity for awe rather… — Ashavan Copy Share Image
I am fully assured, that no general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which… — George Boole Copy Share Image
Grace can never properly be said to exist without beauty; for it is only in the elegant proportions of beautiful forms that… — Johann Joachim Winckelmann Copy Share Image
The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest; the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every… — Christian de Portzamparc Copy Share Image
I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
If we think we are usually good, then God is usually irrelevant... Such thinking ignores the depths of sin in my own… — Edward T Welch Copy Share Image
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
My father stood behind a bar in the back of the room all those years, so one day I could stand behind… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You're dealing in magic-it's this intangible thing that has to happen. And to seek it out too much might not be a… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
I think there is a serious corruption in the idea sold through advertising that you can attain spiritual peace through lifestyle and… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Now I believe in Christ dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. I believe that we are in Christ, we are… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Skepticism literally means a thoughtful inquiry, the looking at a problem in a disinterested spirit, the surveying of a question from many… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Planning is the essence of good management and when it comes to health care we must allow states to plan for future… — Lisa Murkowski Copy Share Image
For almost every character I've played in the 43 years I've been working as a professional actor, I've found parts of myself.… — Sally Field Copy Share Image
![“For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man [2 Cor. 5:21]. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be; God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man…” quote by John Stott](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d25/john-stott-1926_assertion_for-the-essence-of-sin-is-man-substituti_715800.jpg)
![“A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It “consents,” so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree” quote by Thomas Merton](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d5f/thomas-merton-231_consent_a-tree-gives-glory-to-god-by-being-a-tre_2294763.jpg)
