Soroutz Quotes & Sayings

Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising opposition to oppression, and humor prevents them from being consumed by their fury. — James H. Cone

You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose. — Mitch Albom

You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held for several minutes. You are then between time and the time-less - waiting for the unknown, which will come but cannot be willed. — Barry Long

Late modern society is principally concerned with purchasing things, in ever greater abundance and variety, and so has to strive to fabricate an ever greater number of desires to gratify, and to abolish as many limits and prohibitions upon desire as it can. Such a society is already implicitly atheist and so must slowly but relentlessly apply itself to the dissolution of transcendent values. It cannot allow ultimate goods to distract us from proximate goods. Our sacred writ is advertising, our piety is shopping, our highest devotion is private choice. God and the soul too often hinder the purely acquisitive longings upon which the market depends, and confront us with values that stand in stark rivalry to the only truly substantial value at the center of the social universe: the price tag. — David Bentley Hart

Turns out that once you kill a god, people want to talk to you. Paranormal insurance salesmen with special "godslayer" term life policies. Charlatan's with "godproof" armor and extraplanar safe houses for rent. But most notably, other gods ... — Kevin Hearne

You see, there's a theory current you're insane, or you lean strongly in that direction. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Good nature is stronger than tomahawks. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You plus nothing equals everything. — LeCrae

I have arrived, I am home In the here, in the now I am solid, I am free In the ultimate I dwell — Thich Nhat Hanh

Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to. — Arthur Eddington