Altanova Quotes & Sayings

The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power. — Laura Anne Gilman

This, then, is the foundation of sanctification in Reformed theology. It is rooted, not in humanity and their achievement of holiness or sanctification, but in what God has done in Christ, and for us in union with him. Rather than view Christians first and foremost in the microcosmic context of their own progress, the Reformed doctrine first of all sets them in the macrocosm of God's activity in redemptive history. It is seeing oneself in this context that enables the individual Christian to grow in true holiness. — Sinclair B. Ferguson

You can't make yourself believe anything," he answers softly. "But you can let yourself believe. You can allow yourself to trust. — Rick Yancey

I am egotistical, that I won't deny ... I do think I'm good - in fact, I know I'm good ... but I know that I don't appeal to everybody. — Phil Lynott

Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Blessed are they who translate every good thing they know into action - even higher truths shall be revealed to them. — Peace Pilgrim

The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living. — Idries Shah

When you make a breakthrough it is a moment of scientific exhilaration because you have been on this search and seem to have found it. But it is also a moment where I at least feel closeness to the creator in the sense of having now perceived something that no human knew before but God knew all along. — Francis Collins

The end of the world. — Lenore Look

Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do - back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We are the ironborn, and once we were conquerors. Our writ ran everywhere the sound of the waves was heard. My brother would have be content with the cold and dismal north, my niece with even less ... but I shall give you Lannisport. Highgarden. The Arbor. Oldtown. The riverlands and the Reach, the kingswood and the rainwood, Dorne and the marches, the Mountains of the Moon and the Vale of Arryn, Tarth and the Stepstones. I say we take it all! I say, we take Westeros. — George R R Martin

Don't lose the best thing in your life just because you are not sure. — Nicolas Cage

I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like. — George Eliot

It is the truth, but not the whole truth; and half a truth is as bad as a lie. — Israel Shamir