The passage from the realm of morals into the realm of religion is but a step; for the energy that we have… — Frank C. Lockwood Copy Share Image
Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass,… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a Divine Trust, and it… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
An ignorant man believes that the whole universe only exists for him: as if nothing else required any consideration. If, therefore, anything… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
There's a certain pressure you put on yourself to use the comics page to full advantage that can focus your mind to… — James Vance Copy Share Image
“The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Every one ought to study the Bible with two ends in view: his own growth in knowledge and grace, and passing it… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
To make it really clear and simple, let's call this movement across history we see in passages like the ones we just… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I thought that, given the system of rewards central to our economic system, in which profit maximization is valued above all else… — Derrick Jensen 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
Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that in the last two to three decades, American democracy has been hacked. It was based on the regular… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I admire the artists that work everyday to attest things for themselves... In the act of transforming the objects of the everyday… — Gabriel Orozco Copy Share Image
My son and I discovered Terry Pratchett's books together, when he was about eleven years old. He'd be reading on his own… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have… — Frank Yerby Copy Share Image
So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we… — Lynn Andrews Copy Share Image
For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
... It was the idea of facing a future skimming the surface of life, winging my way in and out of other… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of… — Roger Wicker Copy Share Image
I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
The only indication of the passage of time lies in the heavens, the subtle shift of the moon. So Peeta begins pointing… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not… — Plato Copy Share Image
The inspired and expired air may be sometimes very useful, by condensing and cooling the blood that passeth through the lungs; I… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Of all the hot liquors, I regard buttered rum as the worst. I believe that the drinking of it should be permitted… — David A. Embury Copy Share Image
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
At the risk of appearing predictable, the Bible was and remains the biggest influence on my thinking. I was raised reading it,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the… — Geoff Davis Copy Share Image
'The Hobbit' was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the 'riddles in the dark' passage, and… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I want to treat the… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
