The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the…

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any…

— George Saintsbury

Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they…

— Michael Scott

English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English…

— Winston Churchill

I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is…

— Northrop Frye

There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the Bible is…

— Leland Ryken

The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is…

— John Piper

It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is…

— Colin Greenwood

Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most…

— Aristotle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

— Willa Cather

There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had…

— Toni Morrison

Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by…

— Al Gore

Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he…

— William Greenough Thayer Shedd

The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure. It's the…

— Phil Dusenberry

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

— James Howell