Selective Literalism Quotes & Sayings

[T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but ... to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness. — Frederick Buechner

Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes — Andrew Heller

I should go," he said.
"You should go," I replied.
I thought about kissing him some more.
"Unless you stayed," I said.
"Unless I stayed," he replied. — Brittainy C. Cherry

I traced the path I walk today and my goals are many. I think that I'm achieving my goals. — Elie Saab

I'm never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back and I'm never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already. — Andrea Gibson

In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far beyond biblical literalism. It's time we did the same for homophobia. — William Sloane Coffin

We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship. — Harville Hendrix

Cinna slid down the bar, sassing three groomsmen and
winking at a fourth on her way.
"I totally get why some animals eat their young," Pepper said. — Jamie Farrell

Normans both; but Norman or Saxon, the hospitality of Rotherwood must not be impeached: they are welcome, since they have chosen to halt; more welcome would they have been to have ridden further on their way. — Walter Scott

Judgment is discernment on a bad hair day. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Selective literalism' is another attempt in a very long line of techniques designed and intended to shape God into our own image".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods

Enough mind chatter. I imagined every thought encapsulated in a bubble; I exhaled them into the world. Gradually the noise ceased, and my mind was dark and still. — Rachel Hartman

Everybody wants love! How god managed it for all? — Prem

After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley. — Gene Siskel