Plainsong Psalter Quotes & Sayings

For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike. — Francis Bacon

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth ... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them. — Pope Francis

If you're not in the arena with the rest of us, fighting and getting your ass kicked on occasion, I'm not interested in your feedback. — Brene Brown

We are not made of money. — Kristin Cashore

I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think. — Lena Dunham

I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art. — Kathleen Hanna

We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may have had some intuition that it was a binge and the earth couldn't support it, but aside from the easy things (biodegradable detergent, slightly smaller cars) we didn't do much. We didn't turn our lives around to prevent it. Our sadness is almost an aesthetic response - appropriate because we have marred a great, mad, profligate work of art, taken a hammer to the most perfectly proportioned of sculptures. — Bill McKibben

Moreover, if we joyfully confess the lordship of Christ, then when we ask what is best for people our answers will be cast in terms of what he thinks is best for people, not necessarily what people think is best for themselves. — D. A. Carson