Nikodemos Quotes & Sayings

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov

Die never for a god, Nikodemos who should know better - not your soldiers' god, nor any other. — Janet Morris

Valor was in Nikodemos, unquestionable, and commitment like trees to stand or night to fall. — Janet Morris

We feel the urge to tell the truth as we see it. But we should try to accomplish this without judgemental condemnations that hurt others. Again, when we remember that what we perceive in another is a reflection of ourselves, we become less judgemental. So when we freely express harsh judgement of another, we are in effect talking about those aspects of ourselves that trouble us the most. — Shirley Maclaine

A child's job is to test her boundaries, a parent's is to see that she survives the test. — Roger McDonald

There's always that moment when you realize what it's going to be. You might have an overarching theme and you need to fill in the blanks - and then there's this "Aha" moment when you see where it's going. That's the most satisfying part of writing. — Rosanne Cash

I just play for fun. — Anna Kournikova

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God. — Jimmy Carter

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet. — Diane Ackerman

I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees. — Anne Lamott

The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it. — Janet Morris