Souren Araya Quotes & Sayings

Despite the damaging effects of mounting criticism, we saw some lovely examples of the triumph of the human spirit. Al's greatest trouble was accustoming his people to the concept that each had been given at least one gift of the Holy Spirit to be used for ministry in the community. It seemed to be foreign to them. For those who actually experimented with expressing what was locked inside there was delight and fulfillment. — David R. Mains

Every man, every art, has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with little and many lies. — Romain Rolland

And thus is the affair of our redemption ordered, that thereby we are brought to an immensely more exalted kind of union with God, and enjoyment of him, both the Father and the Son, than otherwise could have been. For Christ being united to the human nature, we have advantage for a more free and full enjoyment of him, than we could have had if he had remained only in the divine nature. So again, we being united to a divine person, as his members, can have a more intimate union and intercourse with God the Father, who is only in the divine nature, than otherwise could be. Christ who is a divine person, by taking on him our nature, descends from the infinite distance and height above us, and is brought nigh to us; whereby we have advantage for the full enjoyment of him. And, on the other hand, we, by being in Christ a divine person, do as it were ascend up to God, through the infinite distance, and have hereby advantage for the full enjoyment of him also. — Jonathan Edwards

When you are loving someone, that someone is loving you, too. That is the universal law. No exception. — Debasish Mridha

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis. — Christopher Hitchens

I am very conscious that, from the time of 'The God of Small Things' was published 10 years ago, we are in a different world ... which needs to be written about differently, and I really very much want to do that. — Arundhati Roy

The end of one thing is just the beginning of another. — Simone Elkeles

We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities. — Peter Farrelly

There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy. — Mikhail Gorbachev