1491 Sparknotes Quotes & Sayings

We want the Church to be small not only that fewer men may know the Enemy but also that those who do may acquire the uneasy intensity and the defensive self-righteousness of a secret society or a clique. — C.S. Lewis

The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them. — George Wald

I don't play just villains. I like to have parts that are not simply villains. — Tommy Lee Jones

In The Bloudy Tenent, Williams points out that Constantine "did more to hurt Christ Jesus than the raging fury of the most bloody Neroes." at least under the Christian persecutor Nero, who was rumored to have had the Apostle Paul beheaded and Saint Peter crucified upside down, Christianity was a pure (if hazardous) way of life. But when Constantine himself converted to Christianity, that's when the Church was corrupted and perverted by the state. Williams explains that under Constantine, "the gardens of Christ's churches turned into the wildernesss of national religion, and the world (under Constantine's dominion) to the most unchristian Christendom." Legalizing, legitimizing the Church turned Christianity into just another branch of government enforced by "the sword of civil power," i.e., through state-sponsored violence. — Sarah Vowell

If you see a bandwagon, it's too late. — James Goldsmith

All the things that are taboo are the things that are not normal, and all the things that are not normal are the things that are exclusively about physically being a woman. — Caitlin Moran

I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine. — Severo Ochoa

Children are responsible individuals in embryo. They have ultimate rights of their own and are not simply the playthings of their parents. — Milton Friedman

You are like pomegranates split open. Even the emptiest among you are as full of good as a pomegranate is full of seed. — Adam Gidwitz

And prefers to sit out a problem rather than sweat out a solution. That nonchalant and perfunctory attitude is a powerful tool of satan in his efforts to retard the growth of God's Kingdom. — Myles Munroe