Permitted Quotes

367 quotes by 305 authors

Jesus said several times, â€œCome, follow me.â€ His was a program of â€œdo what I do,â€ rather than â€œdo what I say.â€ His innate brilliance… — Spencer W. Kimball
It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools. — Henry James
If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever… — William Wilberforce
Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's… — Hermann Hesse
This fall I think you're riding forâ€”it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself… — J D Salinger
This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Is a vegetarian permitted to eat animal crackers? — George Carlin
If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of… — Charles Spurgeon
You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that he starts each… — C.S. Lewis
Without God all things are permitted. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place,… — Charles Dickens
Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. — Helen Hayes
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive. — Lois Lowry
If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, but had let them keep it… — Martin Luther
The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that… — Victor Hugo
It was the one dream he'd never permitted himself to consider. — Julia Quinn
We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later… — Milan Kundera
Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time… — Ayn Rand
That kind of tenderness couldn't be permitted to last. You only got a taste, enough to know what perfection meant, and then you paid for… — Janet Fitch

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