Quispel Gilles Quotes & Sayings

So many of us have not attended to the deeper issues in ourselves; in our minds, our hearts, and in our external manifestations that keep love at bay. We instead concentrate on making a list of what we're looking for in another person. — Marianne Williamson

When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is. — Madeleine L'Engle

For my most gracious master still called me redhead, though my hair was already churchyard-coloured." And — Leo Perutz

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror. — Edgar Allan Poe

Suspicion is like a cankerworm that slowly eats away at relationships. — Gary Rohrmayer

Am I sure? Only as sure as I am that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can ever be the whole truth. — Arthur Schnitzler

The important thing about being a leader is not being right or wrong but being certain. Of course it helps to be right as well, the Abbot conceeded. — Terry Pratchett

During the persecutions under the Emperor Domitian, John was summoned to Rome, where he was tortured by immersion in a pot of boiling oil and subsequently banished to the island of Patmos in the Aegean sea. It was there he wrote his Apocalypse. It was only after the death of Domitian, in A.D. 96, that he returned to Ephesus, where he was still living during the reign of the Emperor Trajan (A.D. 98-117). He became so old and frail that he could no longer walk and had to be carried to meetings and services. All he could manage to say was, "My little children, love one another." He repeated this over and over. — Gilles Quispel