3ten Acl Quotes & Sayings

Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, 'There is another country. There is something beyond mere reason'. — Alister E. McGrath

There is a pleasure that is born of pain. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut according to our pattern? — George Sand

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? — Mary Oliver

We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any attempt to synthesis, without the humility to see that these are only parts of a total knowledge ... But somehow we ought to be able to keep the idea of the totality of experience and knowledge at the back of our minds even though the front's busy from morning til night with the life cycle of the liver fluke. — Maureen Duffy