Spruiell Truss Quotes & Sayings

The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real business in the world and the justification of his existence, without which he would only be an insect crawling among the ephemeral insects on a spec of surface mud and water which has managed to form itself amid the appalling immensities of the physical universe. — Sri Aurobindo

What was money when one's life was at stake? We had learned that nothing lasts and that no value is absolute. The only exception to that rule: freedom. — Miklos Nyiszli

Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought. — Annie Besant

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical. — Joey Skaggs

We tend to lament this seemingly endless parceling of Christianity (which, let's face it, can indeed get out of hand), but I'm not convinced the pursuit of greater unity means rejecting denominationalism altogether. A worldwide movement of more than two billion people reaching every continent and spanning thousands of cultures for over two thousand years can't expect homogeneity. And the notion that a single tradition owns the lockbox on truth is laughable, especially when the truth we're talking is God. — Rachel Held Evans

Augustus was amazing, but he'd overdone everything at the picnic, right down to the sandwiches that were metaphorically resonant but tasted terrible and the memorized soliloquy that prevented conversation. It all felt Romantic, but not romantic. — John Green

He had the look of a well-fucked man, one who was sated and yet anticipating further pleasures ahead. — Sylvia Day

I still feel conflicted because I don't always get to spend as much time with my daughter as I'd like, given my work. — Suzanne Vega

Good work is always done in defiance of management. — Bob Woodward

George Foreman looks as if he might have organically appeared out of the very ground around the church. — Davis Miller

My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too
enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser — Diana Gabaldon

I wonder, 'Why did I do that line that way?' And I also constantly think I'm fat and hate my teeth. But I've gotten better over the years. I've started to accept. — Kaley Cuoco

Now I know why the Lord took his day off on Sunday. That must be the day he personally greets his favorites. — Jason F. Wright

You know that, don't you? Alexander whispers. I love you. I'm blind for you, wild for you. I'm sick with you. I told you that our first night together when I asked you to marry me, I'm telling you now. Everything that's happened to us, everything, is because I crossed the street for you. I worship you. You know that through and through. The way I hold you, the way I touch you, my hands on you, God, me inside you, all the things I can't say during dalight, Tatiana, Tania, Tatiasha, babe, do you feel me? — Paullina Simons

Now, are you just a bloody noisy tosspot, or are you going to help me? — Ian Simpson