Everybody Loves Raymond Misery Loves Company Quotes & Sayings

The higher Christian churches ... 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 ... if God were to blast such a congregation to bits, the congregation would be, I believe, genuinely shocked. But in the low churches you expect it any minute. — Annie Dillard

You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey. — Robert E.Lee

The idea that everyone is strong enough to bear immediate contact with God is false, and conceivable only by an age that has forgotten what it means to stand in the direct ray of divine power, that substitutes sentimental religious 'experience' for the overwhelming reality of God's presence. To claim that everyone could and should be exposed to that reality is sacrilegious. — Romano Guardini

What is the conscience? It is the most highly developed part of the human being, the core of the spirit, the most sensitive, the most tender. — Pearl S. Buck

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake. — Graeme Murphy

Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur. — Tariq Ramadan