Bogomil Heresy Quotes & Sayings

A falling star was a failed star, a cinder burning in the atmosphere. — Robert Ferrigno

People who keep a large snake in their apartment building, which happens quite a bit, all of a sudden, within two summers, have a 14-foot animal that's eating adult rabbits, and needs quite a bit of room and quite a bit of heat. That's the animal that gets put in the back of a pick-up truck and dumped into the Florida Everglades or the city lake, or just left on a doorstep - again, it's quite often the animal that suffers. — Henry Rollins

But I think that I have already been moving too long in a sphere which is not my own. Flying fishes can hold out for a time in the air, but soon they must splash back into the water; allow me, too, to paddle in my own element. — Ivan Turgenev

The Papacy attempted to deal with this movement by sending out missionaries, originally Dominicans in 1240, and then Franciscans a century later, in 1340. But it was only in the mid-fifteenth century that the campaign to uproot the heresy began to really bear fruit, and those local Church leaders who refused to recant were forced to emigrate. But despite this, a legacy of Bogomil influence was left in which the local Church was not closely linked to the Papacy, and this was to sow the seeds of future problems.[2] — Donal Anthony Foley

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it? — Mary Boykin Chesnut

Decent folk had to let indecent folk do their thing; that was the paradox of decency. — Piers Anthony

I seriously think he's one of those dudes where, his whole life, he's gotten credit for being smart and moral for no reason other than he's tall. Anyway, — Curtis Sittenfeld

The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written of wilderness, of nature free from the hand of man. The argument gets at the heart of what the loss of nature will mean to us ... God seems to be insisting that we are not the center of the universe, that he is quite happy if it rains where there are no people - that God is quite happy with places where there are no people, a radical departure from our most ingrained notions. — Bill McKibben

Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad? — P. J. O'Rourke

I keep a very low profile in Switzerland. There are only about 2,000 people in the village I live in, so it's a quiet town. — Adam Derek Scott

You come here because you wish to find your faith again. You can't fool God, either. He knows everything, and it's okay, because He'll forgive you. The question is whether you're ready to be forgiven — J.M. Darhower

The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith. — Barbara Tuchman