Eshu Quotes & Sayings

When you forgive, you're not doing God a favor, you are giving yourself the gift of freedom. — Joyce Meyer

Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

The Bible was written between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago, and it's filled with the knowledge that people had in that period of time, some of which you and I rejected long ago. The Bible says that women are property, that homosexuals ought to be put to death, that anybody who worships a false God ought to be executed, that a child that talks back to his parents ought to be stoned at the gates of the city. Those ideas are absurd. — John Shelby Spong

I have lived in Ivan and die in Malina. — Ingeborg Bachmann

Some people like danger and adventure, some like to be free of civilization, and some like to live by their wits. It was those special people who headed west. — Joy Hakim

Don't tell me I'm sentimental, you sons of bitches. You are contemptible, your dishonesty is contemptible, your careful plodding with words, to keep them safely captured inside your silly little theories are contemptible, but I don't hate you, because each of you is a sad little pompous son of a bitch, with a chair at a university, and you are fighting bravely to seem to be somebody. — William, Saroyan

In West African and Caribbean folklores the role falls to Anansi, a spider who sometimes imparts knowledge or wisdom - and sometimes casts doubt or seeds confusion. Eshu, — Gabriella Coleman

If I've learnt anything over the last six years it's that the most important thing is the strength of our economy. That is how we pay for our NHS, how we build schools, how we provide opportunities for people. And I'm in absolutely no doubt that our economy will be stronger if we stay in and will be weaker and at risk if we leave. — David Cameron

James Buchan's The Persian Bride combines a moving love story, a political thriller, and a history of modern Iran in a beautiful novel about the relationship of two people caught up in the Iranian revolution: John Pitt, a young man from England who arrives in Isfahan, Iran, in 1974, and seventeen-year-old Shirin, one of John's students, whose father is a general in the shah's army. — Nancy Pearl

Run your business in harmony with God's laws. This will keep you on an ethical footing. Seek to please God in everything you do. — David Green

People of color have to do this work as a mater of everyday survival. And so long as they have to, who am I to act as if I have a choice in the matter? Especially when my future and that of my children in large part depends on the eradication of racism? There is no choice. — Tim Wise

I'd never had any problem finding inspiration; Ireland was always just there, you know? All this richness of culture was there to tap into. — Brendan Gleeson

If I can have any impact, I want women to feel good about themselves and have fun with fashion — Michelle Obama

Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing. — Flannery O'Connor

Inspiration is a message-in-a-bo ttle from the distant shore, a window into the other world, a tap of the muse's finger, the grace of the gods. It comes when you least expect it ... — Phil Cousineau