“Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does.”
Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer
Source: When God Whispers Your Name
Quotes about doe page 27
“Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.”
Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now
“Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.”
Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer
“Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words”
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
“The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.”
J. Gresham Machen (1881–1937) American theologian
“Time does not change us it just unfolds us”
Max Frisch (1911–1991) Swiss playwright and novelist
Sketchbook 1946-1949
“Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
“Light does not come from light, but from darkness.”
Mircea Eliade (1907–1986) Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer and philosopher
Carl Sagan book Broca's Brain
Broca's Brain (1979), p. 64 http://books.google.com/books?id=90DuAAAAMAAJ <br class="br">Source: Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science <br class="br">Context: The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
“Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Book I, Ch. 25
Essais (1595), Book I
Source: The Complete Essays
“purple does something strange to me”
Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Variant translations: The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. It was the experience of mystery — even if mixed with fear — that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason in their most elementary forms — it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties — this knowledge, this feeling … that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men.
As quoted in After Einstein : Proceedings of the Einstein Centennial Celebration (1981) by Peter Barker and Cecil G. Shugart, p. 179
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
As quoted in Introduction to Philosophy (1935) by George Thomas White Patrick and Frank Miller Chapman, p. 44
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly: this is religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I am a devoutly religious man."
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
1930s, Mein Weltbild (My World-view) (1931)
Context: The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery — even if mixed with fear — that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
Article 19 <br class="br"> "Declaration of Rights" http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/PShelley/declarat.html (1812)
Dave Eggers book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Mortimer J. Adler (1902–2001) American philosopher and educator
Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information
“Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer
Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
“One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.”
Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist
Source: Seducing an Angel
“There is nowhere morning does not go.”
Leah Hager Cohen American writer
Source: Glass, Paper, Beans: Revolutions on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things
Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer
Source: The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of the Arabian Nights
Mary Roach book Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Source: Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer
Source: The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“God never does anything accidentally…”
Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
“No wonder I won the games. No decent person ever does.”
Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire
Katniss, p. 117
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire (2009)
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Variant: please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.”
Robert Henri (1865–1929) American painter
Edna O'Brien (1930) Novelist, memoirist, biographer, playwright, poet and short story writer
Source: In the Forest
“Isn't that what a good story does? It pulls you in and never lets you go.”
Jennifer Donnelly (1963) American writer
Source: Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book
“Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.”
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
Source: Why I Wake Early
“I have not stopped loving her, nor my parabatai; love does not stop when someone dies.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“If I'm dead," he murmured. "Why does it hurt so much?”
Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero
Source: The Lost Hero
“Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?”
Fannie Flagg book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
“Perhaps it's rude to notice when a wizard does something strange.”
Donita K. Paul (1950) American writer
Source: DragonSpell
“Faith, it is said, is better than belief, because belief is when someone else does the thinking.”
Mitch Albom (1958) American author
Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven
“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Lord Mayor’s Banquet, Guildhall, London (9 November 1954) The Unwritten Alliance, page 195, Columbia University, NY (1966),page 195,
Post-war years (1945–1955)
“How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”
Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men
Source: No Country for Old Men
Anatole France book The Revolt of the Angels
Variant: For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
Source: The Revolt of the Angels (1914), Ch. XXI
Marion Roach (1956) American writer
Source: Roots of Desire: The Myth, Meaning and Sexual Power of Red Hair
“A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.”
Tom Bissell (1974) American journalist
“An archer does not aim, he kills.”
Bernard Cornwell The Grail Quest
Thomas of Hookton, p. 18
The Grail Quest, The Archer's Tale/Harlequin (2000)
Richard Cobden (1804–1865) English manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman
Letter to W. Tait (17 August 1838), quoted in John Morley, The Life of Richard Cobden (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1905), p. 127.
1830s
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
As quoted in “Roberto Clementeː Pounder from Puerto Rico” by John Devaney, in Baseball Stars of 1964 (1964), edited by Ray Robinson, p. 150
Other, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1964</big>
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: The Doctrine of the Mean
“a. Does a Human Being Have the Right to Let Himself Be Put to Death for the Truth? by H. H.”
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
1840s, Two Ethical-Religious Minor Essays (1849)
