Metanil Quotes & Sayings

A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth. — Said Nursi

The world is deathly ill. It is dying. The Great Physician has already signed the death certificate. Yet, there is still a great work for Christians to do. They are to be streams of living water, channels of mercy to those who are still in the world. It is possible for them to do this because they are overcomers. — Corrie Ten Boom

Never underestimate the power of sitting quietly. — Josh McDermitt

I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me. — Lupita Nyong'o

You can't accommodate a hundred different opinions,
and you can't ignore them. All you can do is provide people with the
illusion that they participated in the decision. For some reason, that's
enough to make people happy. This is the basis for all democracies. — Scott Adams

Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men. — Saint Augustine

Only by forgetting this primitive world of metaphor can one live with any repose, security, and consistency: only by means of the petrification and coagulation of a mass of images which originally streamed from the primal faculty of human imagination like a fiery liquid, only in the invincible faith that this sun, this window, this table is a truth in itself, in short, only by forgetting that he himself is an artistically creating subject, does man live with any repose, security, and consistency. If but for an instant he could escape from the prison walls of this faith, his "self consciousness" would be immediately destroyed. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Christianity at any given time is strong or weak depending upon her concept of God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

You can learn from anyone if you know the right questions. — Rick Warren

It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself. — Cesare Lombroso

The gate is small because truth guards the entrance. The way is narrow because the Lord protects us with wise boundaries. — Charles Stanley

[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered clowns we call the people." — Jeffrey Rosen