Hesychast Quotes & Sayings

And we tell ourselves all kinds of similarly implausible no-consequences stories all the time, about how we can ravage the world and suffer no adverse effects. Indeed we are always surprised when it works out otherwise. We extract and we do not replenish and we wonder why the fish have disappeared and the soil requires ever more "inputs" to stay fertile. We drive down wages, ship jobs overseas...then wonder why people can't afford to shop as much as they used to...At every stage our actions are marked by a lack of respect for the powers we are unleashing - a certainty, or at least a hope, that the nature we have turned to garbage, and the people we have treated like garbage, will not come back to haunt us. — Naomi Klein

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing. — Al Pacino

I was in the army, Terri. Special Ops, sent into the most godforsaken places you can imagine, where I did unspeakable things. We weren't exactly sent in to teach our enemies to knit. (Nathan) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Everyone wants to be great, until it's time to do what greatness requires. — Joshua Medcalf

The secret to wealth is hard work and good management. — John Patrick Hickey

She had a pretty name but she knew she wasn't pretty. — Jonathan Maberry

I will break you, Ren," he said, voice heavy. You need to understand that. — Anne Zoelle

The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime. — Elsa Barker

In the church today, we are falling prey to the appeal of "New!" The old truths of the gospel don't seem spectacular enough. We're restless for the latest, greatest, newest teaching or technique. We pastors in particular seem to search for a shortcut or some dynamic new strategy that will fire up our churches. — Jim Cymbala

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger. — Mary Roberts Rinehart