Supplanter Biblical Quotes & Sayings

In ancient times people weren't simply male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female or female/female. In other words each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everyone in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing other half." "Why did God do that?" "Divide people into two? You've got me. God works in mysterious ways. There's that whole wrath-of-God thing, all that excessive idealism and so on. My guess is it was punishment for something. As in the Bible. Adam and Eve and the Fall and so on." "Original sin," I say. — Haruki Murakami

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked. — Paul Newman

Let us give ourselves to the Immaculata [Mary]. Let her prepare us, let her receive Him [Jesus] in Holy Communion. This is the manner most perfect and pleasing to the Lord Jesus and brings great fruit to us." Because "the Immaculata knows the secret, how to unite ourselves totally with the heart of the Lord Jesus ... We do not limit ourselves in love. We want to love the Lord Jesus with her heart, or rather that she would love the Lord with our heart. — Maximilian Kolbe

What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion. — Herman Melville

We believe that unless we give opportunity to the strong and able, we shall never have the means to provide real protection for the weak and the old. — Harold Macmillan

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. — Oscar Wilde

I believe that hope, imagination, and dreams create our destiny. — Debasish Mridha