Glanvill Quotes & Sayings

We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from the Earth we tread on ... And if we are ignorant of the most obvious things about us, and the most considerable within our selves, 'tis then no wonder that we know not the constitution and powers of the creatures, to whom we are such strangers. — Joseph Glanvill

The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity. — Joseph Glanvill

When he was level with his partner he brought his other arm around his back, immediately going for that gorgeous ass. He gave it a good, hard squeezed before running his thumb down the crease. Green moaned inside their kiss, pushing his ass back into his hand. "Horny fucker," Ruxs hissed back. "You started it." Green moaned, worming his hand between them to cup Ruxs' swelling dick. "Ahhh, fuck. We gotta stop. Work. Need to go to work," Ruxs said breathlessly. He felt like a king. Green was looking at him like he could throw him on the cold floor right now and spread his legs wide for him, all he had to do was say to. Ruxs slapped his ass hard and Green moaned like the hot slut he was. — A.E. Via

The ignorant Looker-on can't imagine what the Limner means by those seemingly rude Lines and Scrawls, which he intends for the Rudiments of a Picture, and the Figures of Mathematick Operation are Nonsense, and Dashes at a Venture, to one uninstructed in Mechanicks. We are in the Dark to one another's Purposes and Intendments; and there are a thousand Intrigues in our little Matters, which will not presently confess their Design, even to sagacious Inquisitors — Joseph Glanvill

I'm very interested in religion and different religions, and I know quite a lot about it. I love gospel music, and I love going to churches, but the one drawback is that I don't actually believe in God. And it is quite a handicap, you know. — Nick Lowe

Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature. — Joseph Glanvill

Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. — Kevin DeYoung

No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book. — Joseph Wambaugh

They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions. — Joseph Glanvill

The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and they that love one another for their opinionative concurrence, love for their own sakes, not their Lord's. — Joseph Glanvill

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore. — Joseph Glanvill

After a while, when she has forgotten him a little, when she realizes that her life and her are more to her than any man, she will tell me about it. — Florence Converse

Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance. — Joseph Glanvill

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured. — Joseph Glanvill

And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness, Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will. — Joseph Glanvill

So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn't finish one without being in the middle of another
anything to stop me from falling into the big, gaping void. You see, books fill the empty spaces. If I'm waiting for a bus, or am eating alone, I can always rely on a book to keep me company. Sometimes I think I like them even more than people. People will let you down in life. They'll disappoint you and hurt you and betray you. But not books. They're better than life. — Marc Acito

Do not despise any man, however poor he may be; but behave with full respect and kindness to every well-intentioned man, especially to the poor, as to our members worthy of compassion - or, rather, to members of Christ - otherwise you will cruelly wound your soul. — John Of Kronstadt

We're going to tell the truth." I glanced toward him. "Hopefully, that's going to be enough. — Mira Grant

To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence. — Joseph Glanvill

We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage. — Joseph Glanvill

I've had nothing but great friendship to help me through this. — David Letterman

The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis. — Joseph Glanvill

Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed. — Joseph Glanvill

Duck love is recognizable in any language. — Edmond Manning

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason. — Joseph Glanvill

We are entitled to violate history, provided that it results in handsome offspring. — Alexandre Dumas

My best advice for finding inner happiness is to reach outside yourself, to use your talents and brains and personality to make life better for someone else. — Nick Vujicic

It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself. — Joseph Glanvill

The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties. — Joseph Glanvill

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry. — Joseph Glanvill

What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels. — Joseph Glanvill

So, to very unsubtly change the subject, what kind of books do you like to read? And so help me if you say Greek mythology, I'll turn this car around myself.
It takes him a minute to get my joke, and then he starts laughing and I join in. And there's something about it all - the expanse of the summer sky arcing overhead and my hand still on Grey's warm thigh - that makes me wonder if I could just pause life here and wrap a bubble around this moment, if it would be enough to keep me happy. — Carrie Ryan

The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden. — Joseph Glanvill

Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions. — Ernest Mandel

There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective. — Joseph Glanvill

I laid the foundation and built thereon, the science of CHIROPRACTIC. — Daniel D. Palmer