Community Comparative Religion Quotes & Sayings

Hard tasks need hard ways. — Frank Herbert

She was so plain that neither of them could think of her as a rival, so they began dressing her with perfect sincerity, and with the naive and firm conviction women have that dress can make a face pretty. — Leo Tolstoy

They entrenched themselves in their preferences, their beliefs, their prejudices, and closed ranks against everything that was different — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In taking life for granted, we fail to notice it. — Stephen Batchelor

I never lost a freestyle race. Never. Not even in the YMCA. — Johnny Weissmuller

Grace is letting something else - something so much bigger than you - carry you home. It's having and wanting nowhere else to be but in a moment that wants you and takes you just as you are. — Hannah Brencher

One reason current discussions of justice are so impoverished is that our heterogeneous society does not have many shared texts. Shakespeare's plays are among the few secular texts that remain common enough and complex enough to sustain these conversation. His answers to our dilemmas may not "bear on all points." Yet they teach us not to underestimate the action of the flower. — Kenji Yoshino

A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print and dead man's sentiment. Would it not be better, finer, braver to leave the rubbish where it lies and walk out into the world a free untrammelled illiterate Superman? — Cornelia Funke

The only thing that really differentiates Texas from any other place in the world is the proclivity of its people to urinate outdoors and to attach a certain amount of importance to this popular pastime. — Kinky Friedman

History warns us. Legend fascinates us. Imagination drives us. Authors take these and create worlds that entertain, provoke and warn. Ultimately, even fiction is about the Story we all find ourselves in. And history makes sure no one forgets. — Darrick Dean

Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't. — Bill Hybels

The fact of the matter is that I've enjoyed the competition in life and the business of life; I've enjoyed all that goes with it. — William Schreyer

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's value. — Ayn Rand