Otavalo Quotes & Sayings

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life. — Jean Paul

People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price. No man will send to buy a thing that costs even sixpence without an intention to read it. — Samuel Johnson

The witness is frequent and insistent that God is inherently relational and personal. So God cannot be either received or understood apart from our being personal and realtional as well. That most emphatically excludes the detached intellect as a way of knowing God. It excludes programmatic work as a way of knowing God. It excludes cultivation of the ecstatic and visionary as a way of knowing God. God is not an abstract idea that can be mastered, not an impersonal force that can be used, not a private experience that can be indulged." Eugene Peterson, "Living the Resurrection" (106). — Eugene H. Peterson

It is only into the thirst of an empty soul that the streams of living waters flow. Ever thirsting is the secret of never thirsting. — Andrew Murray

If there was a pill that allowed you to drink and not get drunk, an alcoholic would go What happens if you take two? — Robin Williams

Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it was some special wickedness of my own that made such queer things happen. Now I'm beginning to guess that everybody's like that. — Christopher Morley

I think it's horrible that we Turks are always seen under the aspect of Islam first. I am constantly asked about religion, and almost always with a negative undercurrent that makes me furious. — Orhan Pamuk