Przetoczyno Quotes & Sayings

It is only by hearsay (by word of mouth passed down from generation to generation) that whole peoples adore the God of their fathers and of their priests: authority, confidence, submission and custom with them take the place of conviction or of proofs: they prostrate themselves and pray, because their fathers taught them to prostrate themselves and pray: but why did their fathers fall on their knees? — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I think "majority" is one of my least favorite words. It's so often used to justify bad decisions. — Emma Newman

Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good. — Leo Tolstoy

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun. — Fritz Kreisler

The gospel liberates us to be okay with not being okay. We know we're not - though we try very hard to convince other people we are. But the gospel tells us, Relax, it is finished. — Tullian Tchividjian