Nowhere in the Word of God is there any text or passage or line that can be twisted or tortured into teaching… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
The gardens I love best are those that are still affectionately tended by the people who own them and who made them… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Children should transcribe favourite passages. --A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Perhaps there will be prattlers who, although completely ignorant of mathematics, nevertheless take it upon themselves to pass judgment on mathematical questions,… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Let us see that our knowledge of Christ be not a powerless, barren, unpractical knowledge: O that, in its passage from our… — John Flavel 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
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
There is one passage in the Scriptures to which all the potentates of Europe seem to have given their unanimous assent and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I support and have always supported passage of a federal constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a union between one man and… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Mr. President, passage of this bill will visit the heel of oppression on all the people, vitiate their constitutional shield against tyranny,… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
There are a great number of peoples who need more than just words of sympathy from the international community. They need a… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time,… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
By the last decades of the 21st century, church worship will still take the form of reading passages of traditional texts -… — Frank Tipler Copy Share Image
What bothers me is when music becomes entertainment. Of course, music is supposed to be entertaining, but go back to any period… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
The attitude of the Church was not as dogmatic as is often assumed. Interpretations of Bible passages had been revised in the… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
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My life has been sadly lacking in snails. I can't clearly remember any first-hand encounters. The best thing I can come up… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
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I just had a device made that fits in your mouth and juts your jaw out like you have an underbite. It… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
The year after I graduated college I had a job in a library. When people underlined passages in the library books, or… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith… — William Penn Copy Share Image
I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage; not a passing from one age to another, or, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
![“[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave…And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us…” quote by William Penn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/75a/william-penn-1104_comfort_tho-ugh-death-be-a-dark-passage-it-leads_2782573.jpg)
