Powerful Aslan Quotes & Sayings

Though the waves and the sea and the anger of princes are roused against me, they are less to me than a spider's web. — John Chrysostom

He was Will, in all his perfect imperfection; Will, whose heart was as easy to break as it was carefully guarded; Will, who loved not wisely but entirely and with everything he had. — Cassandra Clare

If I examine the circumstances which inspired me to write - and this is not mere self-indulgence, but a desire for accuracy - I see clearly that the starting point of it all for me was war. — J.M.G. Le Clezio

One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the art world, you would never hear that. — Eric Fischl

For prayer is the language of the heart ... — Grace Aguilar

Oh yes, I want to play with 'Samson'. Come to Delilah. — Sunny

Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery or angry, and they can have catchy and satisfying melodies. There's nothing wrong with songs. — Russell Smith

How could the Law of Retribution function properly when one party in a dispute was so wealthy and so powerful as to be virtually untouchable? — Reza Aslan

I saw death come for you, and I had no philosophy. — Mary Renault

But Jesus's message was designed to be a direct challenge to the wealthy and the powerful, be they the occupiers in Rome, the collaborators in the Temple, or the new moneyed class in the Greek cities of Galilee. The message was simple: the Lord God had seen the suffering of the poor and dispossessed; he had heard their cries of anguish. And he was finally going to do something about it — Reza Aslan

They had not yet learned to draw the significant but often very fine distinction between smut and pure science. — Aldous Huxley

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. — Charles M. Schwab

Meanwhile, I continued my academic work in religious studies, delving back into the Bible not as an unquestioning believer but as an inquisitive scholar. No longer chained to the assumption that the stories I read were literally true, I became aware of a more meaningful truth in the text, a truth intentionally detached from the exigencies of history. Ironically, the more I learned about the life of the historical Jesus, the turbulent world in which he lived, and the brutality of the Roman occupation that he defied, the more I was drawn to him. Indeed, the Jewish peasant and revolutionary who challenged the rule of the most powerful empire the world had ever known and lost became so much more real to me than the detached, unearthly being I had been introduced to in church. Today, I can confidently say — Reza Aslan

The condition of man is to till the soil; there is no other wholeness to his existence. — Oscar Handlin

I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness — Tove Jansson

In terms of the Japanese royal family, they were considered the direct descendants of a god. They are regarded as all-powerful and possessors of unimaginable wealth, and yet they are, more often than not, literally prisoners of tradition. — Kathryn Lasky

Matthew implies that the kingdom belonging to the Son of Man is one and the same as the Kingdom of God. And since the Kingdom of God is built upon a complete reversal of the present order, wherein the poor become powerful and the meek are made mighty, what better king to rule over it on God's behalf than one who himself embodies the new social order flipped on its head? A peasant king. A king with no place to lay his head. A king who came to serve, not to be served. A king riding on a donkey. — Reza Aslan