Snippets Chicago Quotes & Sayings

When you seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, Matthew 6:33, there becomes no need to seek yet another kingdom. — Paul Halbeck

The teacher asks a question.
You know the answer, you suspect
you are the only one in the classroom
who knows the answer, because the person
in question is yourself, and on that
you are the greatest living authority,
but you don't raise your hand.
You raise the top of your desk
and take out an apple.
You look out the window.
You don't raise your hand and there is
some essential beauty in your fingers,
which aren't even drumming, but lie
flat and peaceful.
The teacher repeats the question.
Outside the window, on an overhanging branch,
a robin is ruffling its feathers
and spring is in the air. — Mary Ruefle

The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You only defeat your demons by facing them. — Serena Grey

The Capitalist system with its exploitation of those who are economically weak, with its robbery of the workers labour power, with its unethical way of appraising human beings by the number of things and the amount of money he possesses, instead of by their internal value and their achievements, must be replaced by a new and just economic system, in a word by German Socialism. — Gregor Strasser

in 1762, Rousseau argued that puberty had such fundamental emotional and mental effects that it represented "a second birth. — Jon Savage

A little foolishness, enough 2 enjoy life, & a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do — Osho

I'd only marry for love."
"Easy to say when you're not illegal. — Patricia Engel

I shall have nowt to talk to now the baby is boiled. — Jeanette Winterson

The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology — Malcolm X

You were baptized?"
"My sister told me that yes, Father baptized me shortly after birth. My mother was a Protestant of a faith that deplored infant baptism, so they had a quarrel about it." The Bishop held out his hand to lift the Speaker to his feet. The Speaker chuckled. "Imagine. A closet Catholic and a lapsed Mormon, quarreling over religious procedures that they both claimed not to believe in. — Orson Scott Card

I'm not gonna waste your time, so I wouldn't expect you to waste my time. — Terrell Owens

Because the divine goodness could not be adequately represented by one creature alone, God produced many and diverse creatures, that what was wanting in one in the representation of the divine goodness might be supplied by another. For goodness, which in God is simple and uniform, in creatures is manifold and divided. Thus the whole universe together participates in the divine goodness more perfectly and represents it better than any single creature. — Thomas Aquinas

Do you know where to find a party or something?"
"I'm Adrian Ivashkov," I declared. "The parties find me. — Richelle Mead

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment. — John Fowles