Insufficiently Relaxed Quotes & Sayings

The evil that is in Man comes of sluggish minds ... for sluggards cannot think, and will not ... Send upon us thy flames that we may be burnt of dead thoughts, even as we burn dead grass ... make us see. — Richard Llewellyn

You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No. — Alison McGhee

Thus spoke the devil to me once: "God too has his hell: it is his love of man." ... And most recently I heard him speak this word: "God is dead: God died of his pity for man." - On the Pitying — Friedrich Nietzsche

That's not a rat, that's my ferret. — Jennifer Aniston

God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for the giving that is governed by a fixed determination. The Spirit of God revolutionises our philanthropic instincts. Much of our philanthropy is simply the impulse to save ourselves an uncomfortable feeling. The Spirit of God alters all that. As saints our attitude towards giving is that we give for Jesus Christ's sake, and from no other motive. — Oswald Chambers