Anecdotalism Quotes & Sayings

Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me. — Georg Brandes

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free. — Horace

The church of Jesus Christ is not necessarily present when there is a correct administration of the sacrament and faithful preaching of the Word of God. The church of God is present where people gather together in the power of the resurrected life of Jesus Christ. It is possible to have the administration of the sacraments and the preaching of the Word of God and to have it be simply a human exercise. And the misunderstanding of the church in this respect is one of the things that create a primary problem for the integration of theology and spirituality. Because, as was emphasized yesterday, a bad theology will kill any prospects of a spirituality that comes from life in Christ. — Dallas Willard

Life's a beach. Enjoy the Read. — Kerry Lonsdale

One of the most moving narratives of modern history is the story of how men and women languishing under various forms of oppression came to acquire, often at great personal cost, the sort of technical knowledge necessary for them to understand their own condition more deeply, and so acquire some of the theoretical armoury essential to change it ... There is no reason why literary critics should not turn to autobiography or anecdotalism, or simply slice up their texts and deliver them to their publishers in a cardboard box, if they are not so politically placed as to need emancipatory knowledge. — Terry Eagleton

When the people have many weapons, the nation grows more benighted. — Lao-Tzu

If poets use such expressions it is because they need them, because emotion and experience force them out of them, and so it is, surely, with me, though you think them unbecoming in me. You are wrong. They are becoming to whoever needs them, and he has no fear of them, because they are forced out of him. — Thomas Mann

So life does flow, but not from left to right on a time scale, rather from
inside out. — Thomas Daniel Nehrer

Hope is a gift we give ourselves, and it remains when all else is gone. — Naomi Judd