B626 31 Quotes & Sayings

Humanity lives in its fiction. — Blaise Cendrars

Note, though, something else of great significance about the whole Christian theology of resurrection, ascension, second coming, and hope. This theology was born out of confrontation with the political authorities, out of the conviction that Jesus was already the true Lord of the world who would one day be manifested as such. The rapture theology avoids this confrontation because it suggests that Christians will miraculously be removed from this wicked world. Perhaps that is why such theology is often Gnostic in its tendency towards a private dualistic spirituality and towards a political laissez-faire quietism. And perhaps that is partly why such theology with its dreams of Armageddon, has quietly supported the political status quo in a way that Paul would never have done. — N. T. Wright

woman behind the counter glided over. She looked early-to-mid thirties, casually dressed in well-worn jeans and a tight fitting top, and easy on the eyes. She gave me a warm smile. "Finding everything alright?" "I think — Doug Keeler

You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve and you'll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going. — Ellen DeGeneres

I lived and languished. — Andrei Platonov

When God is your source it doesn't matter whether you're graced with a six-figure salary or living in squalor in a slum. All you got to do is see Him as your source and you'll find your needs met. — David Roiel

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good. — Adam Smith

Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one ... Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Lil had always believed that a person's duty was to make the best of the hand they were dealt. No use wondering what might have been, she used to say, all that matters is what is. — Kate Morton

You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets! — C.S. Lewis

A lot of existential questions will be answered just after the "Fuck." As in life itself. — Don Winslow

People always starve themselves, and then they get hungry, and then they eat the wrong things, like chips or cookies or whatever they can grab. — Heidi Klum

Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice Triumphs; — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow