Diane Pernet Quotes & Sayings

The higher Christian churches--where, if anywhere, I belong--come at God with an unwarranted air of professionalism, with authority and pomp, as though they knew what they were doing, as though people in themselves were an appropriate set of creatures to have dealings with God. I often think of the set pieces of liturgy as certain words which people have successfully addressed to God without their getting killed. In the high churches they saunter through the liturgy like Mohawks along a strand of scaffolding who have long since forgotten their danger. If God were to blast such a service to bits, the congregation would be, I believe, genuinely shocked. But in the low churches you expect in any minute. This is the beginning of wisdom. — Annie Dillard

Instead I handed you a broken heart. — Lauren Layne

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. — Christian Nestell Bovee

The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If a guy doesn't trip over himself to get to me, I'm not interested. I don't want to waste my time chasing what doesn't want to be caught. — Melissa Haag

Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory. — Giraldus Cambrensis

Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self. — Mahatma Gandhi

Only Lia would use the name she'd been born with as her fake name. — Anonymous

In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders. — Vernon L. Smith

I smoke weed, of course. That's like meditation for me. Watching movies is a really good escape as well. — Wiz Khalifa