Costas Markides Quotes & Sayings

When you are studying any matter or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only: what are the facts, and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted by what you wish to believe, but look only and surely at what are the facts. — Bertrand Russell

God knows suffering, not because he created it, but because He experiences it with us ... It is also true that although God knows suffering, He doesn't explain it. I waited and searched and beat myself up for that, and I know now that it just flat-out doesn't happen. God only walks us through it and out into a place where we can once again be free. He does this not because we believe some rigid this or that about Him. He does it because He believes in us. He doesn't ask us to go out into the world telling people why they suffer. Even if we knew why, it wouldn't hurt any less. What we need to know is how to help each other live with it, and live well. — Nancy Rue

Serpent-Breath was famous ... Wasp-Sting, short and lethal. — Bernard Cornwell

Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the flashiest ones? — Julian Barnes

The Indians had only the two alternatives of war or civilization; in other words, they must either have destroyed the Europeans or become their equals. — Alexis De Tocqueville

So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can. — Augustine Of Hippo

What is it about the sea? Is it because it's there? — Jerry Pinto

There are two kinds of fascists: fascists and anti-fascists. — Ennio Flaiano

Facts are God's native tongue. — Michael Dowd

WE WAIT in the rivers and the woods, in the sky and the cities and the sun, but we do not wait patiently. We have been patient too long. We have been told again and again that we can't win, that the best we can hope for is balance, but we will no longer accept this. We feel a new future building beneath us, the magma of possibility pressing against the earth. We are becoming a mountain. We will erupt. — Isaac Marion