Dinyarian Quotes & Sayings

If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign. — James A. Owen

Like the bottom of a lake, the trees trapped a cold reminder that the sun struggles to touch all parts of the earth equally. — Elliot Ackerman

If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us to prayer. — Richard J. Foster

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives ... inside ourselves. — Albert Camus

The world doesn't want to be punished. It wants to remain in darkness. It doesn't want to be told that what it believes is false. If you also don't want to be corrected, then you might as well leave the church and spend your time at the bar and brothel. But if you want to be saved - and remember that there's another life after this one - you must accept correction. — Martin Luther

A mental picturing of that which we want, with the complete acceptance and the conviction that it is ours now, will bring it quickly. — Lester Levenson

Is that "great cloud of witnesses" watching my way so as to judge or is it informing my way so that I may walk it? Do they hide the light so that I cannot see it or do they filter it so that its blaze will not blind me? Can a man see God face to face and live? Can I not see an eclipse better through a pinhole in a paper than without it?
We can't so much see light as we can see things because of it. So I do not meet God in a vacuum
I meet Him in the world He has provided for me to meet Him in
in a world of events and of places, of history (time and space), in a world of lives of people and their records of their encounters. I meet God in this world
in the world of these things ...
... and this is the world as best as I can remember it. — Rich Mullins

Seeing is flux, he said. I mentioned the hidden narratives in his work, and he said that for him stories were like blood running through a body - paths of life. It was a revealing metaphor, and I never forgot it. — Siri Hustvedt

Our greater beastliness lies not in a penchant for brute force,but in our greater corruption, nihilism, and decadence; in our servitude to the
overwhelming systems we create; in the sociopathic rationalism we adopt to master natural forces and to compete with the machines we build;and in the scientistic idolatry that co-opts the religious impulse. Of course the ancients resorted more to brute force: they lacked the infrastructure to punish their enemies and victims in a safer, more
sophisticated fashion, with advanced legal regimes and mass-produced, maximum security prisons; with engineered propaganda for social conditioning; and with economic, cyber, and drone warfare. We channel our aggression with more sophisticated instruments, but the use of those instruments doesn't ennoble us. — Benjamin Cain

And grumbling, he does it, in front of everybody, which is how I know he is utterly and completely mine. — Jenny Han

I always thought communism was crap, really. — Alexei Sayle

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness. — Amber Riley

I write to prove that we lived. I write both to remember and to let go. I write because I can't stop, not until this horrible story of ours is over and we're safe at home. — Courtney M. Privett

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it. — Gordon Parks

It is incumbent upon everyone to aid those daysprings of authority and sources of command who are adorned with the ornamant of equity and justice. — Baha'u'llah