All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous…

“at its essence theology is the art of gospelizing, that is, making the gospel shape our thinking, praying, preaching, teaching, and ministering in relation…

— Michael F. Bird

Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed…

— Martin Luther

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You…

— Saint Augustine

“Your father may never have produced one of those stuffy tomes we call great literature, but he left the world a substantial collection of…

— David E. Fessenden

Oldboy makes us feel a part of something bigger than ourselves. It's a grand, gritty, indelible experience, the sort of picture that mimics great…

— Stephanie Zacharek

Absolutely No doubt: you are a great Literature, but if you Don't Have Been Any Assumptions About social situation, then have been worthless all…

— Mak_786

“This is the thing about great literature. It reads like truth and sticks to you forever and lets you know that you are not…

— Arlaina Tibensky

Freedom of speech doesn't guarantee great literature.

— Pankaj Mishra

A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final…

— James Weldon Johnson

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

— Shirley Hazzard

The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.

— Doris Lessing

This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of history, it's…

— Meryl Streep

Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the…

— William Butler Yeats

Nothing better protects a human being against the stupidity of prejudice, racism, religious or political sectarianism, and exclusivist nationalism than this truth that invariably…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

— Kate Zambreno