Try all things by the written word, and let all bow down before it. You are in danger of [fanaticism] every hour,… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
The walking tour guides one through the city's various landmarks, reciting bits of information the listener might find enlightening. I learned, for… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I think the most attractive people are the confident ones, regardless of their literal appearance, so I strive for that. Basically, I… — Justine Bateman Copy Share Image
Compulsion in the literal Sense is maliciously misrepresented, by supposing it authorizes Violences committed against the Truth. The Answer to this; by… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
“We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Praise is literal food for feminine qualities. If you want your woman to grow in her radiance health, happiness, love, beauty, power… — David Deida Copy Share Image
I had a house in Haiti, in the hills above the North Atlantic coast. The house appeared as if out of a… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
I believe the Scriptures teach that there's a literal heaven and a literal hell, just like Jesus said. And without forgiveness of… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
I don't read the Bible as the literal word of God; I don't view Jesus as a God. I've rejected both those… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
Glamour is a beautiful illusion - the word 'glamour' originally meant a literal magic spell - that promises to transcend ordinary life… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
I first heard "Heaven Without a Gun" when Kevin [Drew] sent it to me, and there was this kind of beauty about… — Andy Kim Copy Share Image
A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
I believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. And I say no, it's not, Dad. Well, I believe that… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
The Family in particular, but also other really **** conservatives come to call what is "Biblical Capitalism." The idea that capitalism is… — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
Well, the role of our "allies," in my view, is a scandal. 53 other countries cooperated in the kidnapping, "extraordinary rendition," of… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
If the drug war was waged in those communities it would spark such outrage that the war would end overnight. This literal… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
What's cool is that in the story of the movie [The Hangover] our characters are also really kind of getting to know… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
The freeze of a photographic gesture, the fix of an action, how an arm twists, how a smile gets momentarily stabilized or… — Leon Golub Copy Share Image
People ask me about 'The Hurt Locker' a lot, and it's an incredible piece of filmmaking - as are 'Band of Brothers'… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
I was struggling to find a way to make evening clothes more deconstructed. I like to think that I translated the Latin… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
If there was not one man Adam and one woman Eve, and a literal event of the one man Adam taking the… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think we, especially in American culture, are so afraid to talk about death. And I'm not talking about literal death. I'm… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
The thing that had fueled these utopian communities was a literal belief, and not just a general sense of optimism, that the… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
The month of Ramadan is the world's most widespread fast and yet its teachings are minimised, neglected and even betrayed (through literal… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
There's a literal track: who says what to whom, what are people wearing, etcetera. And there's the abstract track: what ideas are… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
You can't have whatever you want. But to a child who must ask permission for every single thing, adulthood looks like a… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
The Hebrew scriptures say it's okay to enslave anybody except your fellow Jews. It says you should enslave only your neighbors. I… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I started doing sculpture in 1959. I had no commissions then. They were painted, similar in style to the paintings... At a… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims that Jesus Christ is the Son of God in the most literal sense.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
There is a push and a pull almost like an isometric stretch. Our literal flexibility and our physical, psychological and spiritual practices… — Brenda Strong Copy Share Image
I have yet to find a faithful tithe payer who cannot testify that in a very literal and wonderful way the windows… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I was also thinking about isolation on an evolutionary scale as well, like when you think of an island like Madagascar where… — Colin Stetson Copy Share Image
![“Try all things by the written word, and let all bow down before it. You are in danger of [fanaticism] every hour, if you depart ever so little from Scripture; yea, or from the plain, literal meaning of an text, taken in connection with the context.” quote by John Wesley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/10f/john-wesley-1398_all-things_try-all-things-by-the-written-word-and-l_324608.jpg)
![“I first heard "Heaven Without a Gun" when Kevin [Drew] sent it to me, and there was this kind of beauty about it. I don't live that much in the literal world, so you kind of have to see beyond the veil of what you're being shown sometimes. To me, that's such a beautiful, wonderful sentiment.” quote by Andy Kim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/277/andy-kim-4097_beautiful_i-first-heard-heaven-without-a-gun-when_512702.jpg)
![“What's cool is that in the story of the movie [The Hangover] our characters are also really kind of getting to know each other and bonding over the course of the movie. And I think you're seeing a real, a literal sort of friendship growing both in us as actors and on screen as characters.” quote by Ed Helms](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c78/ed-helms-4996_actors_what-s-cool-is-that-in-the-story-of-the_73568.jpg)
