Oddio Linverno Quotes & Sayings

Should one of them after having caught the greatness of Abraham's deed, but also the appallingness of it, venture out on the road, I would saddle my horse and ride along with him. At every stop before we came to the mountain in Moriah I would explain to him that he could still turn back, could rue the misunderstanding that he was called to be tried in a conflict of this nature, could confess that he lacked the courage, so that if God wanted Isaac God must take him himself. — Johannes De Silentio

Dear Abba, I'm starting out free today, free from the advertised lies that promise me everything from four-doors of turbo-charged happiness to some contraption that will shake, rattle, and roll my abs back into a pack I never had even in my twenties. It would be comical if it wasn't so sad: all of our desires to make ourselves worthy of this world but unfit for the world to come. I want to be a follower of the sacred dream, and one day arrive fully free, free at last. — Brennan Manning

Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions. — Theodore Burghard Hurt Brameld

I can imagine that if there existed a God who loved, the devil would be driven to destroy even the weakest, the most faulty imitation of love. Wouldn't he be afraid that the habit of love might grow, and wouldn't he try to trap us all into being traitors, into helping him extinguish love? If there is a God who uses us and makes his saints out of such material as we are, the devil too may have his ambitions; he may dream of training even such a person as myself ... into being his saints, ready with borrowed fanaticism to destroy love wherever we find it. — Graham Greene

Solitude is addictive. Once you discover how peaceful it is, you no longer want or need to deal with people anymore. — Nicola Haken

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it ... — Neil Strauss

I tend to be conversational and loose with dialogue in general, not out of disrespect for the source material but because that's the way I work. — Clark Duke

!!!!Any BOOK Accepted as Cash!!!! — Robert A. Heinlein