Farter From Sparta Quotes & Sayings

At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devotee finds satisfaction in God with form, and at another stage, in God without it. — Ramakrishna

It is always wise with a course of action to consider the likely consequences before going ahead with it. — George Jackson

Our point, however, is not to worship the Bible; we worship the God of the Bible. — John H. Walton

A bag which was left and not only taken but turned away was not found. The place was shown to be very like the last time. A piece was not exchanged, not a bit of it, a piece was left over. The rest was mismanaged. — Gertrude Stein

A reader is entitled to believe what he or she believes is consonant with the facts of the book. It is not unusual that readers take away something that is spiritually at variance from what I myself experienced. That's not to say readers make up the book they want. We all have to agree on the facts. But readers bring their histories and all sets of longings. A book will pluck the strings of those longings differently among different readers. — Richard Ford

You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums. — Jessa Crispin

It might seem singular that Nancy - with her religious theory pieced together out of narrow social traditions, fragments of church doctrine imperfectly understood, and girlish reasonings on her small experience - should have arrived by herself at a way of thinking so nearly akin to that of many devout people, whose beliefs are held in the shape of a system quite remote from her knowledge - singular, if we did not know that human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barriers of system. — George Eliot

The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The self does not belong to the expression of the basic experience, but is constructed only on a very high level. — Rudolf Carnap

So special is God's love that love does not love those who are worthy of it but rather those who have special need of it. — Dean G. Stroud

A rather insistent cross-examiner asks a pathologist whether he can be absolutely sure that a certain patient was dead before he began the autopsy. The pathologist says he's absolutely certain. Oh, but how can you be so sure? Because, the pathologist says, his brain was in a jar sitting on my desk. But, says the cross-examiner, could the patient still have been alive nevertheless? Well, comes the answer, it's possible he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere. — Ian McEwan

Maybe I'm too late to be your first. But right now, I'm preparing myself to be your last. — Mr. Sid

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it. — Virginia Woolf

Some remedies are worse than the disease. — Publilius Syrus

Way from Panchavati to Meluha or do we take a detour?' asked Shiva, goading — Amish Tripathi

You still love her?" he asked curiously.

Carmine nodded. "I think I always will. Regardless of all this bullshit, she'll always be my hummingbird. — J.M. Darhower