Truth Quote by Peter Rollins Download Open image ““The excessive pleasure we imagine receiving from what we want most of all is fleeting at best.”” — Peter Rollins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Truth
“Physical pleasure is awakening in me the desire for more pleasure in general.” — Cheryl Richardson Copy Share Image
“If I identify happiness with fleeting pleasant sensations, and crave to experience more and more of them, I have no choice but to pursue… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Pleasure often has a way of tempting you with more but always leaves you with less.” — Allene vanOirschot Copy Share Image
“All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.” — Sherri L. King Copy Share Image
“Brief worldly pleasure is followed by pain and disgust. If only people would believe it rather than experience it.” — Johann Martin Boltzius Copy Share Image
“The love of pleasure is destined by its very nature to defeat itself and end in frustration.” — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“There is no happiness that lasts overlong. There are only moments of intense pleasure that make all that comes between bearable.” — Nina Bangs Copy Share Image
“...the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention.” — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Our real beliefs are generally not to be found at the level of ego.” — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself. — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
In contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object “God.” Instead these become ways in which… — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
“What we see taking place in the church today is the reduction of God to an idol.” — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
Christianity can be described as a theological materialism: It is that which transforms our material existence. If our faith does not throw us into… — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy. — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
“However, we rarely see what happens after the hero grasps what is sought, for if we did, the impotence of the MacGuffin would be… — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
“Orthodoxy as right belief will cost us little; indeed, it will allow us to sit back with our Pharisaic doctrines, guarding the ‘truth’ with… — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
“playing at the entrance of the hut. “Whose children are these?” he asked.” — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A world where… — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
“For just as one person’s idol is another’s icon, so one person’s fable is another’s parable.” — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“Narrative cannot sustain formlessness any more than light can sustain darkness - it is the antithesis of formlessness, and so it can never truly… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are—without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image