Del Genovese Syndrome Quotes & Sayings

We need useless theory more than ever today. — Slavoj Zizek

Isaiah 55 provides an entirely different framework for thinking about God's justice, because it suggests that we have it backward - the mystery lies not in God's unfathomable wrath but in his unfathomable mercy. God's ways are higher than our ways because his capacity to love is infinitely greater than our own. Despite all that we do to alienate ourselves from God, all that we do to insult and disobey, God abundantly pardons again and again. — Rachel Held Evans

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there. — P. J. O'Rourke

While originating in acts of imagination, orthodoxies paradoxically seek to control the imagination as a means of maintaining their authority. The authenticity of a person's understanding is measured according to its conformity with the dogmas of the school. While such controls may provide a necessary safeguard against charlatanism and self-deception, they also can be used to suppress authentic attempts at creative innovation that might threaten the status quo. The imagination is anarchic and potentially subversive. The more hierarchic and authoritarian a religious institution, the more it will require that the creations of the imagination conform to its doctrines and aesthetic norms. Yet — Stephen Batchelor

I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything. — Kate Beckinsale

I know it's corny - but I love 'Jingle Bells!' — Dolly Parton

from Jefferson County, Gregory Acres from Montgomery — Bryan Stevenson

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way. — Henry David Thoreau

Things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up — Charles Dickens

The more love you give in your day-to-day life, the greater the magnetic power of love you have in the field around you, and everything you want will fall at your feet. — Rhonda Byrne