Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
No one who shall invoke this Mother of Grace with devotion and perseverance can possibly perish forever. — John Eudes Copy Share Image
We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote… — Ihab Hassan Copy Share Image
The only religion which seems to have a function in time of war is the tribal religion which invokes a God as… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The evolution of the cosmos invokes in me a sense of mystery; the increase in biodiversity invokes the response of humility; and… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
Many people who attack me know so little of that larger Tradition, and end up being not very traditional at all. When… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I think the issue will come up after the election of the new Tory leader. They may well decide to call an… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
I'm surprised John Lewis didn't invoke the suppression of voting rights in this election [2016]. I still think it's one of the… — Katrina vanden Heuvel Copy Share Image
When you keep asserting that things are going to work out well, that you can do the job, that you will not… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
When you work in the inner mind, you invoke and receive the help of the impersonal, unlimited resources of the universe. — Roger McDonald Copy Share Image
The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect,… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack. In other words, what happens for most of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Americans are an "almost chosen people," which is meant to suggest that there are clear parallels, literal, theological and everything else, between… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
When are Christian folks going to remember that every time you call yourself a Christian, you invoke the name of God, and… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
I believe the personal essay is underrated for both writer and reader. It affords the writer great freedom: to speak personally yet… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
I would have government defend the life and property of all citizens equally; protect all willing exchange; suppress and penalize all fraud,… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
