Causeries Du Quotes & Sayings

Knowledge is only potential power. — Napoleon Hill

No person having the least particle of Negro blood can hold the Priesthood — Brigham Young

We do not cease to be children because we are disobedient children. — Frederick Denison Maurice

Usually after I'm done with working, I just come home and play a little game and go to bed. After work, I have a lot time to do a lot of stuff. I think I've got a good balance of work and play. — Benjamin Stockham

There's that great Bill Hicks line - the comedian - where he says, "Are you proud to be an American?" "I don't know. It's just where my parents had sex." — Josh Radnor

Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight. — Mencius

Many overlook the fact that Jesus was homeless. He did not only teach the poor; He lived among them. — Dillon Burroughs

For now, we live in the mall, but I think it's closing soon. — Grafton Tanner

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask.
-Emerson — Elizabeth Peters

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short. — Clive James

The Anselmian call for "faith seeking understanding" may start and gather it's energy not in rational study of past theological points but in the pursuit to make sense of our concrete and lived experiences of Jesus who finds us in a hole, knocks us from our horse, or comes to our daughter in her sleep. — Andrew Root

When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to. — Thom Gunn

Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offence. It would be a peaceful age if this were recognized, and religion, Christian, communist or any other, were to rely on practice and not on conversion for her growth. — Freya Stark