Parousia Quotes & Sayings

Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric. — Victor Hugo

How many times have you struggled with the interpretation of certain Biblical texts related to the time of Jesus' return because they did not fit with a preconceived system of eschatology? Russell's Parousia takes the Bible seriously when it tells us of the nearness of Christ's return. Those who claim to interpret the Bible literally, trip over the obvious meaning of these time texts by making Scripture mean the opposite of what it unequivocally declares. Reading Russell is a breath of fresh air in a room filled with smoke and mirror hermeneutics. — Gary DeMar

We are all queer fish, queerer behind our faces and voices than we want any one to know or than we know ourselves. — F Scott Fitzgerald

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts. — Axel Munthe

Nico knelt and picked it up. He regarded Jason, as if waiting for an attack. "If the others found out-" "If the others found out," Jason said, "you'd have that many more people to back you up, and to unleash the fury of the gods on anybody who gives you trouble. — Rick Riordan

The Lord's appearing, His coming back, is a warning, an encouragement, and an incentive to us; we should love His appearing and look forward to it with earnest expectation and joy. — Witness Lee

And I saw then again, and for good, what I had always been afraid to see, and had pretended not to see in him: that he was a woman as well as a man. Any need to explain the sources of that fear vanished with the fear; what I was left with was, at last, acceptance of him as he was. — Ursula K. Le Guin

A community of smashed up things and somehow everyone was willing to share the superglue — Anissa Belkadi

And how was your day? ... Did you do great things? — Morgan Matson

The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing. — T. S. Eliot

Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one love earthly reality and believe - with charity - that there is still room for Hope. — Umberto Eco

I trust her, Tindwyl. Part of trust is belief. — Brandon Sanderson

If the church preaches faith in anything other than the resurrection - if it gives so much as the impression that anything else, be it political action, moral achievement, or spiritual proficiency, can save the world - it becomes just one more false, parochial prophet leading the world away from the catholic parousia of Christ in the universal death of history. — Robert Farrar Capon

Habit is Heaven's own redress:
it takes the place of happiness. — Alexander Pushkin

The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on. — Samuel Beckett

It didn't matter the quality of the writing - Callie's fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic. — Sarah MacLean

It is sad to see people do things without putting their soul and heart into it. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter
and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.(IAGO,ActI,SceneI) — William Shakespeare