Schobels Quotes & Sayings

He (Kesri) understood that the gap left by his departure from home had been filled by the continuing flow of their lives. — Amitav Ghosh

To me, happiness can be over rated. — Donna M. Zadunajsky

Point-of-view is a matter that readers rarely pay attention to, yet it's one of the most important story decisions an author makes. — Therese Fowler

We need empathy to give empathy. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Compassion basically means accepting people's frailties, their weaknesses, not expecting them to behave like gods. That expectation is cruelty. — Osho

It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not. — Stephen Ambrose

Today's wealthy are poor though they don't know it. They can't bring their possessions to where we're all going. — Elie Wiesel

There is indeed something preposterous about well-educated Westerners racing East in search of spiritual enlightenment while Easterners make the opposite pilgrimage seeking education and economic opportunities. — Sam Harris

It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things. — Vera Farmiga

And I must be nineteen by now, lord! Maybe even twenty?" "Eighteen?" I suggested. "I could have been married four years ago, lord!" We — Bernard Cornwell

I tried to explain what I thought I was seeing: that the four gospels had, as it were, fallen off the front of the canon of the New Testament as far as many Christians were concerned. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were used to support points you might get out of Paul, but their actual message had not been glimpsed, let alone integrated into the larger biblical theology in which they claimed to belong. This, I remember saying, was heavily ironic in a tradition (to which he and I both belonged) that prided itself on being "biblical." As far as I could see, that word was being used, in an entire Christian tradition, to mean "Pauline." And even there I had questioned whether Paul was really being allowed to speak. That's another story. — N. T. Wright