Angyalka Quotes & Sayings

Church historians often ask, 'Is the church a movement or an institution?' . . . I think it is both. . . . I believe the people of God in history live in a tension between an ideal--the universal communion of saints--and the specific--the particular people in a definite time and place. The church's mission in time calls for institutions: special rules, special leaders, special places. But when institutions themselves obstruct the spread of the gospel rather than advancing it, then movements of renewal arise to return to the church's basic mission in the world. — Bruce L. Shelley

the words are only part of the poetic
formula: the rest is ritual, and the
reason in THEM must contend with the
mechanics of magic-making in IT -- and
must not win. — Laura Riding Jackson

It's just a temporary thing. — Lou Reed

I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness ... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use. — Peter Zumthor

I didn't kill him, I just fucked him — Toni Morrison

The guy who enters pro sports hasn't run scared from the 7th grade on. Until he enters the pros, it's been nothing but roses. — Jim Finks

If everything is energy, which it is - then everything is because of energy. — Serge Benhayon

Suppose that thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity ... yet here there is this beautiful provision, that it is in thy power again to unite thyself. God has allowed this to no other part, after it has been separated and cut asunder, to come together again ... he has distinguished man, for he has put it in his power not to be separated at all from the universal ... he has allowed him to be returned and to be united and to resume his place as a part. — Marcus Aurelius

Sleep's the only medicine that gives ease. — Sophocles

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

That even now, even after all the years of dreaming, of wanting, she is not Tristan, and she is not Jill, and she is not anyone who can recklessly seize unexpected opportunities. — Nick Alexander

We have pills for headaches. We have antidepressants for sadness. We had God for believers. We have nothing for autism. — Lisa Genova

But wonderful people nearly always combine their wonderfulness with other characteristic that can drive on utterly crazy — Eva Rice

I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I was very thin, like a boy, and I was very un-sexy. — Luise Rainer