Lionised Quotes & Sayings

Then faith's paradox is this: that the single individual is higher than the universal, that the single individual determines his relation to the universal through his relation to God, not his relation to God through his relation through the universal ... Unless this is how it is, faith has no place in existence; and faith is then a temptation. — Soren Kierkegaard

I guess you can't estimate the speed of a teenage boy when he thinks he has a shot at sex. He never had a shot. But if he was that fast removing his pants, can you imagine how quick the sex would have been? — Mary J. Williams

We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace. — Oswald Chambers

Banned and lionised by drunken cactuses,
eternally sanguine in black and white, raw like the majestic sex on her ruby red deathswoman mouth, silver-coated terror in her eyes. — Laura Gentile

His power over her was limited, because she didn't love him. — Ann Brashares

Though I am otherwise relentlessly normal, I have one peculiarity: I get along well only with people who are smarter than me. — Elizabeth Bear