Parmentier Roeselare Quotes & Sayings

He didn't seem conventionally insane in any way that I could understand. But there was no way of comprehending him. In some eerie and fundamental way, he didn't appear to belong to our world. But that didn't seem the same as being mad. — Marcel Theroux

To believe in God starts with a conclusion about Him, develops into confidence in Him, and then matures into a conversation with Him. — Stuart Briscoe

He remembers the philosophers dead with detail, and how they honed their trade into the grave for the sake of their livelihoods. Incapable of audacity, they pleasured themselves with a maze constructed of nothing but dead-ends. They were so petrified they might happen upon the truth, might come to know something for certain, that they deployed some of their best minds to obliterate it, scattering its shards into infinity. But they were only trying to keep the dream alive, after all, fighting to keep the questions outnumbering the answers, picking away at the odd dropped stitch in an otherwise ever-tightening blanket of sacrosanct precision. They fought hard, if unwittingly, against the encroaching dullness of complete knowledge, but ultimately paid the price of becoming as dull as their enemy - at least the chemical truths of literature sometimes bothered to wear a suit and tie. — Gary J. Shipley

If all it took to become enlightened were to sit and meditate, then all frogs would be Buddhas. — Sengai

With God's help, good cheer permits us to rise above the depressing present or difficult circumstances. ... It is sunshine when clouds block the light. Ensign, May 1986 — Marvin J. Ashton

All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop. — Kabir

And she'd discovered she wasn't empty inside. She was magnificent. Even if nobody yet recognized it. — Courtney Milan