“It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.”
Source: Hearts in Atlantis
Quotes about founding
page 10
Baruch Spinoza
(1632–1677) Dutch philosopher
Letter 74 (76) to Albert Burgh (1675) http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1711&chapter=144250&layout=html&Itemid=27
Context: You seem to wish to employ reason, and ask me, "How I know that my philosophy is the best among all that have ever been taught in the world, or are being taught, or ever will be taught?" a question which I might with much greater right ask you; for I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy. If you ask in what way I know it, I answer: In the same way as you know that the three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles: that this is sufficient, will be denied by no one whose brain is sound, and who does not go dreaming of evil spirits inspiring us with false ideas like the true. For the truth is the index of itself and of what is false.
But you, who presume that you have at last found the best religion, or rather the best men, on whom you have pinned your credulity, you, "who know that they are the best among all who have taught, do now teach, or shall in future teach other religions. Have you examined all religions, ancient as well as modern, taught here and in India and everywhere throughout the world? And, if you, have duly examined them, how do you know that you have chosen the best" since you can give no reason for the faith that is in you? But you will say, that you acquiesce in the inward testimony of the Spirit of God, while the rest of mankind are ensnared and deceived by the prince of evil spirits. But all those outside the pale of the Romish Church can with equal right proclaim of their own creed what you proclaim of yours.
As to what you add of the common consent of myriads of men and the uninterrupted ecclesiastical succession, this is the very catch-word of the Pharisees. They with no less confidence than the devotees of Rome bring forward their myriad witnesses, who as pertinaciously as the Roman witnesses repeat what they have heard, as though it were their personal experience. Further, they carry back their line to Adam. They boast with equal arrogance, that their Church has continued to this day unmoved and unimpaired in spite of the hatred of Christians and heathen. They more than any other sect are supported by antiquity. They exclaim with one voice, that they have received their traditions from God himself, and that they alone preserve the word of God, both written and unwritten. That all heresies have issued from them, and that they have remained constant through thousands of years under no constraint of temporal dominion, but by the sole efficacy of their superstition, no one can deny. The miracles they tell of would tire a thousand tongues. But their chief boast is that they count a far greater number of martyrs than any other nation, a number which is daily increased by those who suffer with singular constancy for the faith they profess; nor is their boasting false. I myself knew among others of a certain Judah called the faithful, who in the midst of the flames, when he was already thought to be dead, lifted his voice to sing the hymn beginning, "To thee, o God, I offer up my soul", and so singing perished.
Steven Pressfield
(1943) United States Marine
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Kresley Cole
American writer
Source: Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night
Cameron Dokey
(1956) American writer
Source: The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of The Ballad of Mulan
Source: Clockwork Angel
“She said people found running to something easier than running from something.”
Sarah Mlynowski
(1977) Novelist
Source: Ten Things We Did
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
“My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.”
Pat Conroy
(1945–2016) American novelist
Cornel West
(1953) African-American philosopher and political/civil rights activist
Source: The Cornel West Reader
“Gymn says your fine. He's examined your internal organs and found nothing lacking.”
Donita K. Paul
(1950) American writer
Source: DragonSpell
“I found out early that you can throw yourself away, missing what you've lost.”
Tana French
book
The Likeness
Source: The Likeness
“Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.”
Henry Miller
(1891–1980) American novelist
“I found myself pinned to the hallway wall by six feet, two inches of hard, hot male.”
Sylvia Day
(1973) American writer
Source: Reflected in You
Desmond Tutu
(1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner
Misattributed
Arthur Conan Doyle
(1859–1930) Scottish physician and author
Source: Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I
“A man's immortality can be found in his children.”
Patricia Briggs
(1965) American writer
Source: Raven's Shadow
“…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.”
Source: The Cider House Rules
“Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.”
Charles Baudelaire
(1821–1867) French poet
Ne pouvant supprimer l'amour, l'Église a voulu au moins le désinfecter, et elle a fait le mariage.
Journaux intimes (1864–1867; published 1887), Mon cœur mis à nu (1864)
“Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there.”
Anne Sexton
(1928–1974) poet from the United States
Source: To Bedlam and Part Way Back
“Through my tears
I found god in myself
and I loved her fiercely”
Ntozake Shange
(1948–2018) Contemporary African American writer and performance artist
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (1976)
Variant: i found god in myself
& i loved her/i loved her fiercely
“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”
Ansel Adams
(1902–1984) American photographer and environmentalist
Clary, pg. 325
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
“You no longer need other people in your life once you have found your true love.”
Source: City of Lost Souls
Source: The House of Hades
Source: Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
Helen Keller
(1880–1968) American author and political activist
My Religion / Light in My Darkness, Ch 6 (1927)
Context: Self-culture has been loudly and boastfully proclaimed as sufficient for all our ideals of perfection. But if we listen to the best men and women everywhere … they will say that science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings.
Giacomo Casanova
(1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
Memoirs (trans. Machen 1894), book 1, Preface http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/casanova/c33m/preface2.html
Referenced
Source: Geschichte Meines Lebens
Jessica Bird
(1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Awakened
No. 58 (May 26, 1759)
The Idler (1758–1760)
Source: The Idler; Poems
Context: Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance. Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
Aphra Behn
(1640–1689) British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer
The Lucky Mistake (1689).
Source: The Lucky Chance, Or, the Alderman's Bargain
“I found the candles—atrocious air freshening ones that smelled like fake pine.”
Source: The Golden Lily
David Gemmell
(1948–2006) British author of heroic fantasy
Source: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
“I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.”
Source: In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
“A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.”
Bette Davis
(1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States
Richard Rohr
(1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest
Source: The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See
Julie Anne Peters
(1952) American writer
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
John Calvin
(1509–1564) French Protestant reformer
Source: Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols
