And the purpose of our creation, in which all our subsidiary purposes fit, is to be in a personal relationship to God,… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. ...… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
None of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only another subtle way of trying to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The tea party saved the Republican Party. In a broad sense, the tea party rescued it from being the fat, unhappy, querulous… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
I think sharks are beautiful creatures, and I don't think we should stop going in the ocean because of them. You drive… — Bethany Hamilton Copy Share Image
Everyone is shy - it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
Why...is the hunter who shoots a deer for venison subject to more criticism than the person who buys a ham at the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to change. “Repent” is its most frequent message, and repenting means giving up all of… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
I believe that fallen creatures perish, perish for ever, for only good can live, and good has not been theirs; but how… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Why would so many risk their reputations, families, careers—even presidential legacies—for something that runs against human nature? Were monogamy an ancient, evolved… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would. To be conceited… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Beasts bounding through time. Van Gogh writing his brother for paints Hemingway testing his shotgun Celine going broke as a doctor of… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I'm a creature of routine, and I hate feeling incompetent, so I avoided novelty and challenge. Making an effort to push myself… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The Orthodox believe in Jewish literacy, and most of the rest of us couldn't care less. Rabbis and other creatures have a… — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built… — John Phillips Copy Share Image
The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of god seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
The prehuman creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind… Humanization… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Italy is good in the sense that when you bring a child to a restaurant in Italy, they're happy to see it.… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“And I wonder if any of the road-kill creatures actually wanted to die and threw themselves beneath the speeding wheels. A lethargic… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
Never before had she seen such creatures, though they looked much live very large, very shaggy white goats. Thin black horns punctuated… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it - it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the… — Diane Frolov Copy Share Image
Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they’re killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? 'Sweetheart,… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Oh, well. Everyone else has suave, cosmopolitan sheep: why not us? The Millers at Hepple have a ewe that’s been to Kelso… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
Brave words in a room full of pulseless creatures. Spade gave Don a disgusted glance while Rodney just licked his lips. No… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
He had been through a good deal in the course of the Great Quest — he had seen beautiful things and horrible… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
“The owl,” he was saying, “is one of the most curious creatures. A bird that stays awake when the rest of the… — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
Acting's always felt like a kind of creature that lays dormant and collects observations when I'm not working. And then when I'm… — Benn Northover Copy Share Image
A society remotely worth its salt eventually has to come to grips with the barbarism practiced upon helpless creatures in the name… — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Let this be to you the mark of true gospel preaching - where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing; where… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man would stake his life on it… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
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