Conceptualist Paintings Quotes & Sayings

Again Satan was defeated, and again he resorted to deception, in the hope of converting his defeat into a victory. To stir up rebellion in the fallen race, he now represented God as unjust in having permitted man to transgress his law. "Why," said the artful tempter, "when God knew what would be the result, did he permit man to be placed on trial, to sin, and bring in misery and death?" And the children of Adam, forgetful of the long-suffering mercy that had granted man another trial, regardless of the amazing, the awful sacrifice which his rebellion had cost the King of heaven, gave ear to the tempter, and murmured against the only Being who could save them from the destructive power of Satan. — Ellen G. White

These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word. — Ralph Adams Cram

People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of generating response. — Steven Soderbergh

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war. — Charles De Montesquieu

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Is the love you have for me, and the feelings I have for you forever parallel, with no chance of intersecting? — Atsuko Asano

If I had to do it over, I wouldn't change a thing. — Billy Sheehan

You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things FOR you carries with it the equivalent power to do things TO you. — Albert J. Nock

He became a poet the way other men become monks: as a devotional practice, as an act of love, and as a lifelong commitment to the search for grace and transcendence. — Elizabeth Gilbert