Calumnious In A Sentence Quotes & Sayings

If you run into a psychic wall face-first, do you wind up with psychic bruises?
-Clary, pg.239- — Cassandra Clare

O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear, All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer! - "WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS" BY JOSEPH SCRIVEN — Cheri Fuller

For God loves to be entreated, He loves to be compelled. — Gregory Of Nazianzus

It was strange too that he found an arid pleasure in following up to the end the rigid lines of the doctrines of the church and penetrating into obscure silences only to hear and feel the more deeply his own condemnation. The sentence of saint James which says that he who offends against one commandment becomes guilty of all, had seemed to him first a swollen phrase until he had begun to grope in the darkness of his own state. From the evil seed of lust all other deadly sins had sprung forth: pride in himself and contempt of others, covetousness In using money for the purchase of unlawful pleasures, envy of those whose vices he could not reach to and calumnious murmuring against the pious, gluttonous enjoyment of food, the dull glowering anger amid which he brooded upon his longing, the swamp of spiritual and bodily sloth in which his whole being had sunk. — James Joyce

Water can be a symbol of purification, to stand naked before someone a sign of truth, of nothing to hide. - Nick Flynn — Nick Flynn

Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends. — Madhur Bhandarkar

There's no blade as keen as surprise. — Brian Staveley

Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender. — Richard Paul Evans

When I say that I can write nothing but weird fiction, I am not trying to exalt that medium but am merely confessing my own weakness. The reason I can't write other kinds is not that I don't value & respect them, but merely that my slender set of endowments does not enable me to extract a compellingly acute personal sense of interest & drama from the natural phenomena of life. — H.P. Lovecraft