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Areopagite Quotes By Anonymous

The fifth-century Greek writer we know as Dionysius the Areopagite once said that as he grew older and wiser his books got shorter and shorter. — Anonymous

Areopagite Quotes By Bradley Vinson

Sometimes Satan isn't busy- we're just being lazy. — Bradley Vinson

Areopagite Quotes By Debasish Mridha

Forgive and forget ugliness. Look around to find beauty and focus on it. — Debasish Mridha

Areopagite Quotes By Vicki Lawrence

Life is much too serious to be taken seriously. — Vicki Lawrence

Areopagite Quotes By Jack Canfield

When I realized I wanted to do more writing and less traveling around the world teaching live seminars, I decided to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul(R)' book. I knew I wanted to have 100 stories in the book, so I wrote or edited two stories a week for a year. — Jack Canfield

Areopagite Quotes By Richard Bach

Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs? — Richard Bach

Areopagite Quotes By Pseudo-Dionysius The Areopagite

WE say then- that the Cause of all, which is above all, is neither without being, nor without life----nor with- out reason, nor without mind, nor is a body----nor has shape----nor form----nor quality, or quantity, or bulk----nor is in a place----nor is seen----nor has sensible contact----nor perceives, nor is perceived, by the senses----nor has disorder and confusion, as being vexed by earthly passions,----nor is powerless, as being subject to casualties of sense,----nor is in need of light;----neither is It, nor has It, change, or decay, or division, or deprivation, or flux,----or any other of the objects of sense. — Pseudo-Dionysius The Areopagite

Areopagite Quotes By Pseudo-Dionysius The Areopagite

Unknowing, or agnosia, is not ignorance or absence of knowledge as ordinarily understood, but rather the realization that no finite knowledge can fully know the Infinite One, and that therefore He is only truly to be approached by agnosia, or by that which is beyond and above knowledge. — Pseudo-Dionysius The Areopagite

Areopagite Quotes By Janette Rallison

Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible. — Janette Rallison

Areopagite Quotes By Piet Mondrian

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects. — Piet Mondrian

Areopagite Quotes By Lisa Kleypas

Harry's blood quickened as lurid images filled his mind ... her against him, beneath him. That smiling mouth, his alone, her whispers curling into his ear. Her skin, soft and ivory pale in the darkness. Skin heated by skin, sensation emerging as he touched her.
She was worth anything, he thought, even giving up the last remnants of his soul. — Lisa Kleypas

Areopagite Quotes By Samuel Eliot Morison

Never, in these United States, has the brain of man conceived, or the hand of man fashioned, so perfect a thing as a clipper ship. — Samuel Eliot Morison

Areopagite Quotes By Todd Day

If you're committed, that just means you're in agreement your undertaking could be your ticket to the asylum. — Todd Day

Areopagite Quotes By Anna Blanc

Satan has no legal right to afflict the people of God. And God has left to us the responsibility of enforcing His victory over the power of the enemy. We must do our part in standing in the victory Christ has already won. — Anna Blanc

Areopagite Quotes By Billie Joe Armstrong

I just wanted to get the hell out of my town. I wanted to leave with reckless abandon. I didn't care where I ended up, as long as I saw as much as humanly possible. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Areopagite Quotes By Eric Schlosser

When Agnew and Cotter showed the committee how the new lock worked, it didn't. Something was wrong. But none of the senators, congressmen, or committee staff members realized that it wouldn't unlock, no matter how many times the proper code was entered. The decoder looked impressive, the colored lights flashed, and everyone in the hearing room agreed that it was absolutely essential for national security. — Eric Schlosser

Areopagite Quotes By Elizabeth Noble

wasn't there some statistic somewhere she'd read, about where most people meet their spouse, that claimed weddings were the third most popular place, after university and the work place. she was sure that she had. something to do with all that romantic optimism in the air, and too much champagne, no doubt. — Elizabeth Noble

Areopagite Quotes By Pseudo-Dionysius The Areopagite

And, as in the case of sensible images, if the artist look without distraction upon the archetypal form, not distracted by sight of anything else, or in any way divided in attention, he will duplicate, if I may so speak, the very person that is being sketched, whoever he may be, and will shew the reality in the likeness, and the archetype in the image, and each in each, save the difference of substance; — Pseudo-Dionysius The Areopagite

Areopagite Quotes By James Ellroy

Other people, some other writers, will win certain accolades or sell in far greater numbers than me - and I'm a legitimate best-selling author - but I live and die for the work. That's thrilling to me. It's thrilling that I do for others what certain writers did for me when I was a kid. — James Ellroy

Areopagite Quotes By Erwin Panofsky

Fusing the doctrines of Plotinus and Proclus with the creeds and beliefs of Christianity, Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite combined the Neo-Platonic conviction of the fundamental oneness and luminous aliveness of the world with the Christian dogmas of the triune God, original sin and redemption. The universe is created, animated and unified by the perpetual self-realization of what Plotinus had called "the One," what the Bible had called "the Lord," and what he calls "the superessential Light. — Erwin Panofsky