Kacmarks Quotes & Sayings

When the Bible is understood in its literary and historical context; errors, contradictions, and inconsistencies pose no threat to spirituality, whether that spirituality is theistic, non-theistic, or even explicitly Jesus-centered. The graver threat to what Christians call godliness may be fundamentalism - religion that flows from literalism and fear, religion based on anachronism and law. Fundamentalism teachers, in effect, that the tattered musings of our ancestors, those human words that so poorly represent the content of human thinking, somehow adequately describe God. Fundamentalism offers identity, security, and simplicity, but at a price: by binding believers to the moral imitations and cultural trappings of the Ancients, it precludes a deeper embrace of goodness, love, and truth - in other words, of Divinity. — Valerie Tarico

It doesn't have to be pretty, as long as it's good. — Tyffani Clark Kemp

Reckon it's best if you don't have anyone you care about; then it can't hurt you. Don't have to be afraid of losing someone if you no one to lose. — Karen Maitland

Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly — Glen Duncan

The technical brilliance of Lang Lang and the musical genius to create a masterpiece on the spot. — Ian Brown

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living. — Harry Crews

We all have at least two sides. The world we live in is a world of opposites. And the trick is to reconcile those opposing things. I've always liked both sides. In order to appreciate one you have to know the other. The more darkness you can gather up, the more light you can see too. — David Lynch

People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals. — William Butler Yeats

And I think that if something doesn't make sense, forcing yourself to understand it from [Chris Nolan's] perspective makes you better. — Anne Hathaway

Quoting Scripture leads you to the fountain, but only if you plunge in and come up wet will I know that you are a Christian. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission. — Sara Zarr

When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I would be a writer. I heard her, but I knew that I had to leave Georgia, and unlike my friend Ray Charles, I did not go around with 'Georgia on My Mind.' — John Henrik Clarke