Demand Quote by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Download Open image “It's the priests who have demands, not the gods.” — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Demand Priests
Gods are nothing without their worshipers; they act on the affairs and the passions of men. — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
How gracious are the gods in bestowing high positions; and how reluctant are they to insure them when given — Lucian Copy Share Image
“There are a thousand ways of being religious without submitting to Christ’s lordship, and people are practiced in most of them. We live in golden calf country. Religious feeling runs high but in ways far removed from what was said in Sinai and done on Calvary. While everyone has a hunger for God, deep and insatiable, none us has any… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share
As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
The success of Heine -- to become a world-famous 'unknown poet.' — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
Love of one's country recognizes no frontiers... of other countries. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
“Even the masochists tell everything when tortured. From sheer gratitude.” — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or the community--are more likely to be overburdened by the demands of their babies and to be unable to respond to them adequately. Parents who experience severe poverty or economic insecurity, who cannot satisfy their own basic… — Sheila Kamerman Copy Share
If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
My dogs can't do anything--and what a relief. I don't make any demands of them, and I don't try to shape them or their… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness, where admittedly great crimes, wild excesses, and powerful aberrations cannot easily occur - but where God's unconditional demand has even greater difficulty in accomplishing what it requires: the majestic obedience of submission. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of external helps… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it was no mistake that we abolished institutional racism in this country around the same time. The easy thing to do is lay low, but then are we who we say we are? Do we actually stand for anything,… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share
