Bozorg Marde Quotes & Sayings

When the Bible is understood in its literary and historical context; errors, contradictions, and inconsistencies pose no threat to spirituality, whether that spirituality is theistic, non-theistic, or even explicitly Jesus-centered. The graver threat to what Christians call godliness may be fundamentalism - religion that flows from literalism and fear, religion based on anachronism and law. Fundamentalism teachers, in effect, that the tattered musings of our ancestors, those human words that so poorly represent the content of human thinking, somehow adequately describe God. Fundamentalism offers identity, security, and simplicity, but at a price: by binding believers to the moral imitations and cultural trappings of the Ancients, it precludes a deeper embrace of goodness, love, and truth - in other words, of Divinity. — Valerie Tarico

I never thought I was funny. I don't THINK funny. — Lucille Ball

For a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one. — L. Frank Baum

Street lights kill the essence of the night sky. Stars and meteors fade away. No songs or whispers from my blackberry. I drift away to my special place. — Fidelis O. Mkparu

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while. — John Deacon

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine. — Marcus Aurelius

I struggled with feeling confident for a long time, but I think it's important to be strong and not compromise for anyone or a relationship - I'm drawn to that. — Hunter Hayes

Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name. — Joseph O'Connor

Somewhere Chesterton writes
I think it is Chesterton
that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn't deliver him to. — Alec Wilkinson

The basic cause of all our difficulties is immaturity. That's why I talk so much about peace within ourselves as a step toward peace in our world. If we were mature, war would not be possible and peace would be assured. In our immaturity we do not know the laws of the universe, and we think evil can be overcome by more evil. One symptom of our immaturity is greed, making it difficult for us to learn the simple lesson of sharing ... — Peace Pilgrim

It was true what they said about mothers and sons: it was a special bond, a mutual admiration society. — Melissa De La Cruz

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough. — Germaine Greer

But it was humanly good to be touched too, to be alone with someone at the secret feast that went all the way back to Adam and Eve. You looked at each other and felt just how old the contract was, the warm-faced commitment to the adventure, the stepping together out of the light into the rewarding darkness. — Glen Duncan

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange. — Charley Pride

When 'MacGruber' came out, David Wain was one of the first people who publicly championed it. — Bill Hader