Beseeches Define Quotes & Sayings

God is not identified with the world, for he made it; but God is not separate from His world, either. For He made it. — Joseph Sittler

Glimpses do you seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore?
But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God
so, better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land! Terrors of the terrible! is all this agony so vain? Take heart, take heart, O Bulkington! Bear thee grimly, demigod! Up from the spray of thy ocean-perishing
straight up, leaps thy apotheosis! — Herman Melville

League is much, much more physical than Union, and that's before anyone starts breaking the rules. — Adrian Hadley

Every single day, I get letters - very moving, overwhelming letters - testifying how much my books have meant to people in times of crisis in their lives, when they were very ill, say. If I ever doubted that writing could play an important part in people's lives, I don't doubt that now. — Alexander McCall Smith

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again. — Leo Tolstoy

I ignored the teachings of our Messenger, that all men are brothers, and that there is no difference among them save in the goodness of their actions. — Laila Lalami

To sense the peace of extinguished passion Happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge — Dejan Stojanovic

Once my mother had asked me, "Is it better to burn to death or freeze to death?" and the right answer was freeze because at the very end there was a trick that made you think you were warm. — Jenny Offill

It was all part of a way of doing things in the United States that, as I would gradually realize, forced you to be constantly on guard, constantly worried that whatever amount of money you had or earned would never be enough, and constantly anxious about navigating the complex and mysterious fine print thrown at you from every direction by corporations that had somehow managed to evade even the bare minimum of sensible protections for consumers. — Anu Partanen

If you let hope inside, it takes you over. It feeds on your insides and uses your bones to climb and grow. Eventually it becomes the thing that is your bones, that holds you together. Holds you up until you don't know how to live without it anymore. To pull it out of you would kill you entirely. — Ally Condie

The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout. — Theophrastus