Bcskansas Quotes & Sayings

We understand God best, Dorothy Sayers suggests, by thinking of God as a creative artist. Imagine God as an engineer or watchmaker or immovable force, and you will go astray. God's image shines through us most clearly in the act of creation-comprising the three stages of Idea, Expression, and Recognition-and by reproducing this act we may begin to grasp, by analogy, the Trinity. — Philip Yancey

If you ever got me, you wouldn't have a clue what to do with me. — Charlie Kaufman

The happiest people are focused on living their own life (not someone else's) as well as possible. — Harriet Lerner

Perhaps the most obvious political inequality is the violation of the precept one person one vote. Yet until recent times most writers rejected equal universal suffrage. Indeed, persons were not regarded as the proper subjects of representation at all. Often it was interests that were to be represented, with Whig and Tory differing as to whether the interest of the rising middle class should be given a place alongside the landed and ecclesiastical interests. For others it is regions that are to be represented, or forms of culture, as when one speaks of the representation of the agricultural and urban elements of society. At the first sight, these kinds of representation appear unjust. How far they depart from the precept one person one vote is a measure of their abstract injustice, and indicates the strength of the countervailing reasons that must be forthcoming.119 — John Rawls

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. — Benjamin Disraeli

America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America to be free. — Margaret Thatcher

What matters in art is not thinking but making. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The universe of artifacts was a human one. — Gregory Benford

Even including myself, my favorite author is Eileen Spinelli, who I happen to live with. She's a terrific writer and has written several of my all-time favorites. — Jerry Spinelli

When a private entity does not produce the desired results, it [is] done away with. But a public entity gets bigger. — P. J. O'Rourke

Describing yourself by your earthly nativity is carnality. Being born again, your nativity is of divinity. — Chris Oyakhilome