Gaustad G Quotes & Sayings

If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a river of blood. — Edwin Gaustad

When the town aches,
the Swinster Pharmacy aches with it. — Lemony Snicket

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good. — Pope Francis

Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as a potential good, but with equal clarity they saw the religions of existing institutions and religions based on a fixed scriptural revelation as meddlesome, wrong-headed and hopelessly obsolete. — Edwin Gaustad

As a comedian I appreciate every kind of comedy. You decide for yourself what you're going to do. — Jeff Foxworthy

We are an autodomesticated animal. — Anonymous

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. — Aeschylus

Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts. — Kerry King

Who do you suppose has it easier? Ones with religion or just taking it straight? It comforts them very much but we know there is no thing to fear. It is only missing it that's bad. Dying is only bad when it takes a long time and hurts so much that it humiliates you. — Ernest Hemingway,

Schooling perpetuates inequality by reproducing the class structure in every new generation. — Simon John

But to appear happy when I am so miserable - Oh! who can require it? — Jane Austen

It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows. — Henry David Thoreau

The first phrase of the First Amendment spoke to the freedom uppermost in Jefferson's mind when it provided that, 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.' Here a double guarantee could be found: first, that government would do nothing to give official endorsement to a religion or to set one faith above another; second, that government would do nothing to inhibit the freedom of religion. — Edwin Gaustad

Gaga is a gorgeous singer, and when she sings a great ballad, I get goose bumps. — Tony Bennett

What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity. — Edwin Gaustad

One seeks to know the self better in order to know God better. — Edwin Gaustad

We see the greatness of God in times of great challenge. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are essential to ongoing life even if we do not always know precisely how, when or where they perform their tasks, and the not knowing - the flimsy, filmy elusiveness - is supremely characteristic of America's expressions of religious dissent. For in the United States no stalwart orthodoxy stands ever ready to parry the sharp thrust or clever feints of dissent. — Edwin Gaustad

Governments steal from citizens through taxes and through the subterfuge of monetizing their own IOUs. — John Pugsley

When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer. When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns. — Ajahn Brahm

Jefferson found in the religion phrases of the First Amendment no vague or fuzzy language to be bent or shaped or twisted as suited any Supreme Court Justice or White House incumbent. That amendment had built a wall, with the ecclesiastical estate on one side and the civil estate on the other. — Edwin Gaustad

I had about the biggest, longest wish list anyone could have, and 99 percent of what I wanted to get on the screen we got on the screen within our schedule and within our budget and within our resources. — Brad Bird