In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

— Sophocles

To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that…

— Thomas Willis

A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this…

— Brian Swimme

Dear God, I trust that no matter what happens in my life, it is for my highest good. And no matter what happens in…

— Susan Jeffers

Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.

— Barbara Bretton

There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,…

— James Nayler

What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of…

— Jean de la Bruyere

When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of…

— Andrew Linzey

It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become…

— Robert Kuttner

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

— Homer

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows…

— Francois Rabelais

Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile,…

— Margaret D. Nadauld

The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave…

— Joseph Campbell

The U.S. Army has recently removed the cross from the insignia worn by chaplains. In its place is a sun with its rays, symbolizing…

— Chris Murray

...God does not possess a private knowledge of Himself and a separate knowledge of all the creatures in common. The universal Cause, by knowing…

— Pope Dionysius