Leo Mechelin Quotes & Sayings

If we further consider this divine panoramic view within which all evil is supposedly a "secret good" is held by a God who, according to Scripture, has a passionate hatred toward all evil, the "solution" becomes more problematic still. For it is certainly not clear how God could hate what he himself wills and sees as a contributing ingredient in the good of the whole. If all things play themselves out according to a divine plan, how can God genuinely hate anything? — Gregory A. Boyd

There's a completely new culture out there. I'm not a participant of texting and driving - or texting at all - but I see there's something going on in civilization which is coming with great vehemence at us. — Werner Herzog

No state can remain indifferent to another state's wresting from its people more of their rights. It must make a corresponding draft on its own people's rights, or else pay dearly for its neglect to put itself on a level ...
A Power which interferes with its people only in certain respects cannot increase its warlike potential beyond certain limits. To pass them, it must revolutionize those respects and give itself fresh prerogatives. — Bertrand De Jouvenel

The man who is wantonly profuse of his promises ought to sink his credit as much as a tradesman would by uttering a great number of promissory notes payable at a distant day. The truest conclusion in both cases is, that neither intend or will be able to pay. And as the latter most probably intends to cheat you of your money, so the former at least designs to cheat you of your thanks. — Henry Fielding

Better that we leave the paint behind," Hans told her, "than ever forget the music. — Markus Zusak

Money the root of all evil, unless used for good purpose — Henry Ford

Also, I think there are huge reactions sometimes, which are also mysterious. — Christopher Walken

Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I became a tabla-player at the the age of five. However, I should have learned singing also. I mean I know about singing, but I have been never practicing it ... — Trilok Gurtu

The life you want doesn't want you - until you are worthy. — Bryant McGill

But back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart. — Junot Diaz

Descendants of pigeons once fed by Keats, Byron, George Sand, Chopin and many other famous lovers are still being fed, and the sudden sound when they all rise together, frightened away, is like the sound of giant sails flapping. — Anais Nin

The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth