Baim Law Quotes & Sayings

The Bible is not, in other words, simply a list of true doctrines or a collection of proper moral commands - though it includes plenty of both. The Bible is not simply the record of what various people thought as they struggled to know God and follow him, though it is that as well. It is not simply the record of past revelations, as though what mattered were to study such things in the hopes that one might have one for oneself. It is the book whose whole narrative is about new creation, that is, about resurrection, so that when each of the gospels ends with the raising of Jesus from the dead, and when Revelation ends with new heavens and new earth populated by God's people risen from the dead, this should come not as a surprise but as the ultimate fulfillment of what the story had been about all along. — N. T. Wright

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. — Herbert Spencer

There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it. — Josh Billings

Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out — Casey Stengel

He was going to die. He deserved a chance to do it on his terms. No matter what it cost us. — Erin Bow

I believe in low theory in popular places, in the small, the inconsequential, the antimonumental, the micro, the irrelevant; I believe in making a difference by thinking little thoughts and sharing them widely. I seek to provoke, annoy, bother, irritate, and amuse; I am chasing small projects, micropolitics, hunches, whims, fancies. — J. Jack Halberstam

Some people meditated. Some people ran laps around a track. When I was tense, I turned yarn into socks. Lots of socks. More socks than any sane woman with the standard-issue pair of feet could possibly use in a lifetime. — Barbara Bretton

Storytelling is a dangerous vocation, for the fairies punish those who return to tell their secrets. — Marina Warner

You really can expand the boundaries of your life and do risky things and prove yourself by doing them. — Robyn Davidson

Negative words considered dangerous because it would hurt the child. Children will record clearly last words were spoken so that the child will be as pronounced. Moreover, speech is prayer, especially if it comes from the mouth of a mother. — Feel Cozy

Man is a political animal. A man who lives alone is either a Beast or a God — Aristotle.

I feel therefore I am. — Amit Abraham