Mechelse Tafel Quotes & Sayings

Tony [Campolo] and I might disagree on the details, but I think we are both trying to find an alternative to both traditional Universalism and the narrow, exclusivist understanding of hell [that unless you explicitly accept and follow Jesus, you are excluded from eternal life with God and destined for hell]. — Brian D. McLaren

What kind of person gives sex one chance and decides it's not for them?" "This kind." — Audrey Bell

Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate. — Arthur Conan Doyle

What you see is real - but only on the particular level to which you've developed your sense of seeing. You can expand your reality by developing new ways of perceiving. — Wynn Bullock

No man's ambitions (have) a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice. — John Peter Altgeld

No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well. — William P. Leahy

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern. — William Blake

I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may get an idea of the primitive oaks before they are all gone, instead of hiring botanists to lecture to them when it is too late. — Henry David Thoreau

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled. — Louise Erdrich

When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness. — Ramana Maharshi

I mean, if we're regulating cigarettes and sex and cuss words, because of the effect they have on our younger generation, why aren't we regulating things like calling people fat? — Jennifer Lawrence

Marriage," she said quietly, "is the most expensive ticket to nowhere — Aryn Kyle

So, I became a chameleon ... [a]nd after a while I hardly knew what I really felt and thought because I became so good at adapting. — Gloria Miklowitz