Fideliters Quotes & Sayings

If Jesus predicted that the imminent apocalypse would arrive within his own generation, before his disciples had all died, what was one to think a generation later when in fact it had not arrived? One might conclude that Jesus was wrong. But if one wanted to stay true to him, one might change the message that he proclaimed so that he no longer spoke about the coming apocalypse. So it is no accident that our final canonical Gospel, John, written after that first generation, no longer has Jesus proclaim an apocalyptic message. He preaches something else entirely. — Bart D. Ehrman

Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit ... I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be enthroned as king. — Robert Green Ingersoll

It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else. — Suzanne Farrell

I am married but I've yet to meet my wife, and she is dead. Such is the life of a time-traveler ... complicated, that is. — M.K. Alexander

Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust. — Jim Butcher

What gets me pretty pissed off is the whole Monsanto engineered foods issue. — Alex Ebert

Everyone who is critical of Israeli policy is deluged by crazed messages intended to flood their email system or, more insidiously, passwords are accessed and messages sent out under their name! I'm sure it's illegal. It's also an effort to undermine free speech. — Noam Chomsky

I'd rather be on the cast of 'Love & Hip-Hop' than 'Project Runway.' — Solange Knowles

Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work. — Gordon B. Hinckley

And I don't think that success can be measured by how many TV shows you're on. — Clay Aiken

Envy is but the smoke of low estate,
Ascending still against the fortunate. — Sir Fulke Greville

To be vital, faith must be accompanied by self sacrifice and unselfish, constructive action. — Alcoholics Anonymous

The suck part about falling is that eventual crash landing. — Katie McGarry

In a time like that, the past meets you wherever you turn. The days do not use their own hours and minutes, they find ones you have lived through with the person you are missing. — Ivan Doig