Itsomethingelseyt Quotes & Sayings

But prior to about the year 1600, the verb "believe" had a very different meaning within Christianity as well as in popular usage. It did not mean believing statements to be true; the object of the verb "believe" was always a person, not a statement. This is the difference between believing that and believing in. To believe in a person is quite different from believing that a series of statements about the person are true. In premodern English, believing meant believing in and thus a relationship of trust, loyalty, and love. Most simply, to believe meant to belove.11 — Marcus J. Borg

Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors. — Edward Teller

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly. — Alan Watts

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way. — Devdutt Pattanaik

There is no hope for you but in Christ. Rest assured that all the mercy of God is concentrated in the Cross. I hear some talk about the uncovenanted mercies of God - there is no such things. The mercies of God are all emptied out into the Covenant. God has put all His grace into the Person of Christ and you shall have none elsewhere. Trust, then, in Christ - so you shall be blessed, but you shall be blessed nowhere else. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I am a teacher ... The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom ... there await me a group of intelligent and curious young ... [people] who read the books assigned them with a sense of adventure and discovery, discuss them with zest, and listen appreciatively to explications I may offer. What makes the process most satisfying is the conviction that ... education is mankind's most important enterprise. — Moses Hadas

I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a genuine division. — Michael Craig-Martin

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect ... — Ellen Glasgow

We're surrounded by Universal Desire. It's not happiness; it's desire. And desires are never satisfied, because once they are, they cease to be desires — Paulo Coelho

He's a couple sandwiches short of a picnic. — Lance Bass

Ray Wilkins' day will come one night — Bobby Robson