Lapidation Quotes & Sayings

Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot. — Cormac McCarthy

The de-spiritualization of asceticisms is probably the event in the current intellectual history of mankind that is the most comprehensive and, because of its large scale, the hardest to perceive, yet at once the most palpable and atmospherically powerful. Its counterpart is the informalization of spirituality - accompanied by its commercialization in the corresponding subcultures. The threshold values for these two tendencies provide the intellectual landmarks for the twentieth century: the first tendency is represented by sport, which has become a metaphor for achievement as such, and the second by popular music, that devotio postmoderna which covers the lives of contemporary individuals with unpredictable flashes of inner emergency. — Peter Sloterdijk

Contrast the United States with any country on the face of the earth today and ask yourself whether the situation of the United States is not the best to be found. — Henry Cabot Lodge

Oh Lord, I thank Thee that I can bring these people Thy Word. But Lord, there are other villages back in the jungle where no white man has gone. They need Jesus, too. Help me reach them! — Mary Slessor

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Every local church is only as good as the individual members are, not one bit better. If — A.W. Tozer

The style police think that what we look like is more important than anything, and it is their job to seek out and punish those who break their own fashion rules — Kaz Cooke

The white men in the East are like birds. They are hatching out their eggs every year, and there is not room enough in the East, and they must go elsewhere; and they come out West, as you have seen them coming for the last few years. — George Crook

We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see — A.A. Milne

So, you see, in essence, cruelty is a cycle. A person inflicts it and it spreads. It simply breeds more and more of itself in a loop. — L. H. Cosway

Let no one think that I do not love the old ministers. They were, probably, the best men in their generation, and they deserve that their biographies should fill the pages of the town histories. If I could but hear the "glad tidings" of which they tell, and which, perchance, they heard, I might write in a worthier strain than this. — Henry David Thoreau

This quality of Jewish folk music [- it can appear to be happy when it's tragic-] is close to my idea of what music should be. The should always be two layers in music. — Dmitri Shostakovich