Adagios Best Quotes & Sayings

We live in a rainbow of chaos. — Paul Cezanne

The Thief who Couldn't Get Away
I knew a man who didn't come to see his children for years ...
how inept a thief he was to rob from himself like that
... Ironically, his punishment for this
was that his children loved him anyway ... and
it broke his heart — Merrit Malloy

The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/ himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our interconnectedness. — Tara Brach

When I think of the years when I had no faith, what I am struck by, first of all, is how little this lack disrupted my conscious life. I lived not without God, nor wish his absence, but in a mild abeyance of belief, drifting through the days on a tide of tiny vanities - a publication, a flirtation, a strong case made for some weak nihilism - nights all adagios and alcohol as my mind tore luxuriously into itself. I can see now how deeply God's absence affected my unconscious life, how under me always there was this long fall that pride and fear and self-live at once protected me from and subjected me to. Was the fall into belief or into unbelief? Both. For if grace woke me to God's presence in the world and in my heart, it also woke me to his absence. I never truly felt the pain of unbelief until I began to believe. — Christian Wiman

If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red. — Randall Terry

No plumbline could fathom the depths of my faithlessness !! LMS says this to the rector who comes in to visit him in hospital as an old man !! — John Francis Byrne

By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes harder, and he knows its effect is finite. There are only a certain number of Adagios left in him, and he will not recklessly spend this precious currency. — Steven Galloway

Nearly seven years after Moore originally filed suit, the Supreme Court of California ruled against him in what became the definitive statement on this issue: When tissues are removed from your body, with or without your consent, any claim you might have had to owning them vanishes. When you leave tissues in a doctor's office or a lab, you abandon them as waste, and anyone can take your garbage and sell it. Since Moore had abandoned his cells, they were no longer a product of his body, the ruling said. They had been "transformed" into an invention and were now the product of Golde's "human ingenuity" and "inventive effort. — Rebecca Skloot

He always kept his shit together. He was the fucking foam on the latte that rose above all of it. He'd been there for them whenever they needed him, always. He hadn't let his friends down. But at this moment, he resented the hell out of every one of them. — Joey W. Hill

The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy. — Leo Tolstoy

Human relationships were so complicated and always veering in the direction of the irrational. — Michael D. O'Brien

What a shame, what a shame, to judge a life that you can't change ... What a shame to have to beg you to see, we're not all the same. — Shinedown

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten. — Samuel Johnson