« All Publicans Quotes
·
Wendell Berry's Page
Publicans Quotes by Wendell Berry
1 Publicans quote by Wendell Berry
More Quotes by Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry has 397 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it.…
-
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more…
-
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what…
-
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
-
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
-
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
-
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
-
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees,…
-
Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
-
An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a…
-
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is…
-
For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
See all 397 quotes by Wendell Berry »
More Publicans Quotes
Popular Publicans quotes from across the collection:
-
The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress…
— Hugh Nibley
-
The hand that holds the seven stars is as loving as the hand that was laid in blessing upon the little children;…
— Alexander MacLaren
-
The spirit of Lincoln still lives; that spirit born of the teachings of the Nazarene, who promised mercy to the merciful, who…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
-
Harlots shall be made pure by their own tears. But you publicans shall be held down by the chains of your own…
— Khalil Gibran
-
The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and…
— Aldous Huxley
-
We can hardly say that the Pharisees had an accurate ‘knowledge’ of man when they pointed to the sins (the real sins)…
— G. C. Berkouwer
-
As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found…
— Wendell Berry
-
But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? And Jesus…
— Bible
See all Publicans Quotes »
Browse Wendell Berry Quotes by Category