Atenienses De Manati Quotes & Sayings

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole. — Arthur Erickson

There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that
perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims ... — Oscar Wilde

First Corinthians so clearly says that whether we eat or drink, do it all to the glory of God. It's not just self. Jesus said ... in Matthew 16, 'Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Me.' The Osteens have just inverted that. They think it's not the denial of self, but the exaltation of self. They're not trying to pursue a cross; they're trying to pursue prosperity. And they're certainly not following the biblical Jesus. They're following whatever brings happiness and contentment. — Steve Camp

I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point. — Robert Mapplethorpe

Don't come into the presence of God to impress Him with something He gave you! — T.D. Jakes

I'm a believer and I think that faith is not a bad thing. But faith when we use it to make rules and control people, then it might become a bad thing. — Nikolaj Arcel

I cherish the ability to say I love something or someone without having to give reason. — Fennel Hudson

When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the "suspension of disbelief" and activity of the imagination that are available in novels and movies. — John Granger

I seldom look at myself to avoid any self-criticism. — Isabella Rossellini

Relevance is a form of respect. — Kate O'Neill

The laws governing the universe can be made interesting and wonderful to the child, more interesting even that things in themselves, and he begins to ask: What am I? What is the task of man in this wonderful universe? Do we merely live here for ourselves, or is there something more for us to do? Why do we struggle and fight? What is good and evil? Where will it all end? — Maria Montessori

I want to be remembered for my dreams. — Vittorio Arrigoni

Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young. — John Thorn

In large part, thanks to widespread immunization, the number of young children dying each year has declined significantly, from approximately 14 million in 1979 to slightly less than eight million in 2010. — Seth Berkley

I think the lack of automatically feeling, 'Yes, the future is going to be like the present' - that is very much a Jewish thing. — Susanne Bier