Marburg University Quotes & Sayings

So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life - your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life - and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. — Eugene H. Peterson

While every aristocratic morality springs from a triumphant affirmation of its own demands, the slave morality says "no" from the very outset to what is "outside itself," "different from itself," and "not itself: and this "no" is its creative deed. This — Friedrich Nietzsche

You're the one person in my life who wants nothing but me and it's terrifying and awesome at the same time. Don't ever leave me. I love you. You're my heart. — Erin Watt

Ask whatever questions you want, but remember, I may not answer. — Haruki Murakami

The red carpet doesn't interest me. I think people become all the same; it's like everyone posing from the three-quarter angle in some low-cut, fitted dress; it's all the same. — Marc Jacobs

It never ceases to amaze me: the things people care about. — Marty Rubin

Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep-very-softly mist ... and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell like (must I take you by the hand, every so slowly type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resoundingbells ... By my faith if this be insanity, then for the love of God permit me to remain insane. — Robert Hunter

When ATM machines came out and people were prosecuted for robbing ATM machines, I don't think anybody thought the banks were against technology because they didn't want their ATM machines lifted. — Hilary Rosen

It pleased the Almighty, to whose great will Holy Will I submit myself with Christian submission. — George Frideric Handel

Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine. — John Fogerty

My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.' — Ken Venturi

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Sensual aromatherapy is powerful stuff. — Elana Millman

Oh, shiiiiiiit!"
"Is that really your name?" Pritkin demanded as we crawled up onto the shore some time later.
"Oh, shit?"
"It's more the story ofy life," I said miserably.
And then I passed out. — Karen Chance

The experience of death is going to get more and more painful, contrary to what many people believe. The forthcoming euthanasia will make it more rather than less painful because it will put the emphasis on personal decision in a way which was blissfully alien to the whole problem of dying in former times. It will make death even more subjectively intolerable, for people will feel responsible for their own deaths and morally obligated to rid their relatives of their unwanted presence. Euthanasia will further intensify all the problems its advocates think it will solve. — Rene Girard