The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
“For the first time in years, he felt the deep sadness of exile, knowing that he was alone here, an outsider, and… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I want to build a bridge to the 21st century that ends the permanent underclass, that lifts up the poor and ends… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
What can you do with me? My jannah is in my heart! If you take me to jail, I will make zikr… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
The assumption that the larger culture agrees with Christians on values issues led to evangelicals' minimizing the theologically distinctive aspects of Christian… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians still don’t understand the ball our hands made, or how your electrocuted grandparents made it possible for you to light my… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
Scots are born exiles, and Scotland the perfect country to be exiled from. Do not imagine that I am running down Scotland.… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
“No one goes anywhere alone, least of all into exile—not even those who arrive physically alone, unaccompanied by family, spouse, children, parents,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, but under various readings of three codes which… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We need a more complex understanding of writers working under authoritarian or repressive regimes. Something to replace this simpleminded, Cold War-ish equation… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Human skin is porous; the world flows through you. Your senses are large pores that let the world in. By being attuned… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
So it is that God tugs at a pilgrim's sleeve telling him to remember that he is only human. He must be… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
I have never considered myself a writer in exile because I grew up outside of my own country, because my father was… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“Ruefully, nobody perceives me as exceptionally gifted, intelligent, handsome, or physically strong. My sense of alienation stems from an inferiority complex, depressive… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an exile where… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“and one knows, after a long time of solitude, after the many steps taken away from one's kind, toward the kingdom of… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
I think people like me are in a relatively privileged position because we have to some extent chosen to live in foreign… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire. We leave our hearts by the side of the… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“ORESTES: Never shall I see you again. ELECTRA: Nor I see myself in your eyes. ORESTES: This, the last time I'll talk… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“When Don Anastasio Somoza fled the country, he took with him everything he could carry, including all the cash in the national… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
It is a sad hardship and slavery to people who live in towns, that in their movements they know of one dimension… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that America is an ideal place for the privileged homeless, who are used to different cultures. It's easiest and most… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The soul on earth is an immortal guest, Compelled to starve at an unreal feast: A spark, which upward tends by nature's… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
![“In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an exile where the vulgar and artificial dull and deaden the human spirit [] In contrast, the Beautiful offers us an invitation to order, coherence, and unity. When these needs are met, the…” quote by John O'Donohue](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d37/john-o-donohue-1919_beautiful_in-turning-away-from-beauty-we-turn-away_625329.jpg)
