Manichean View Quotes & Sayings

Every time I got to play a show, even if it's already sold out, I'm so scared no one's going to come. — Halsey

The edge of a precipice ... That is the place where man sits throughout his life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content. — Gustav Mahler

Premillennialists tended to have an even more melancholy view of nonChristians than had prevailed among their predecessors; sometimes this view was applied even to those who professed to be Christians but clearly had a different understanding of the gospel. All reality was, in essentially Manichean categories, divided into neat antitheses: good and evil, the saved and the lost, the true and the false (cf Marsden 1980:211). "In this dichotomized worldview, ambiguity was rare" (:225). Conversion was a crisis experience, a transfer from absolute darkness to absolute light. The millions on their way to perdition should therefore be snatched from the jaws of hell as soon as possible. Missionary motivation shifted gradually from emphasizing the depth of God's love to concentrating on the imminence and horror of divine judgment. — David J. Bosch

Only the good die young. — Billy Joel

I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power. — Andrew Solomon

The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh emotions flow over it. — Elizabeth Drew

I sighed and blew — Joseph W Underwood

A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved. — John Rawls

In a time of dislocation, the Manichean view- we, the "good versus them, the "bad" -is, though comfortable, also false and dangerous. False, as I myself know remembering a little girl who wanted a gun and a brother who did not[...]. Dangerous because this simplistic view depends on rigid notions of what men and women are in relation to war and of war itself as an absolute contrast to peace. — Jean Bethke Elshtain

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books. — Paul Theroux

But maybe no one knew that much. Maybe everyone was making it up as they went along, the same as me. — Robin Talley

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here. — Keanu Reeves

Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world. — Therese Of Lisieux

Jesus' love for you far outweighs your expectations of Him. — Todd Stocker

A society or culture which is disposed to view the world in Manichean terms will be more vulnerable to control by propaganda. — Alex Carey

I'm not religious in the sense that I do not subscribe to any particular set of religious dogma. I don't go to church. I don't read the Bible. But I believe that the word "Spirit" with a capital S points to an ultimate reality which I give my heart to. — Frederick Buechner