Sherpas Boulder Quotes & Sayings

Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith ; and in this sense atheism is a purification. I have to be an atheist with that part of myself which is not made for God. Among those in whom the supernatural part of themselves has not been awakened, the atheists are right and the believers wrong. — Simone Weil

Saint Augustine cries, Lord I cannot love you, but come in and love yourself in me. According to Saint Paul, we must put off our own natural form and put on the form of God, and Saint Augustine tells us to discard our own mode of nature; then the divine nature will flow in and be revealed. Saint Augustine says, Those who seek and find, find not. He who seeks and finds not, he alone finds. Saint Paul says, What I was, was not I, it was God in me. — Meister Eckhart

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person. — Dolly Parton

When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do. — Rainbow Rowell

Three minutes, so I turned on the radio and of course it was a Tom Petty song - is there ever a time you turn on the radio and don't hear a Tom Petty song? - — Gillian Flynn

It is the absoluteness of meaninglessness that Christianity, as I understand it, inhabits and inflects, the shock and stark violence of the cross that discloses the living Christ. Revelation, like creation, arises not merely out of nothingness but by means of it. — Christian Wiman

I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits. — Tiffani Thiessen

Got No Where To Go But All Day To Get There — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Is not living at all not better than living badly? — Critias

What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the intelligence knows is impossible to have: a lost love, a shelter from life's blows, the return of a time past, even a connection to the dead. — Alice McDermott

To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me. — Stephen Hopkins

There are bad people in the world: Murderers and psychopaths and telemarketers who won't take no for an answer. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it stayed night. Night was striding across nothingness with the whole round world in his hands ... They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against cruel walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God. — Zora Neale Hurston

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. — Paul Simon