Syncretic Christian Quotes & Sayings

By entwining the story of his life with verses from the Quran and an acknowledgment of the new Christian terms to which he must adapt, Omar ibn Said created less a tale of conversion than a syncretic narrative: Like that of so many others, his is a story not of the religious remaking of a people but of a people remaking religious traditions to serve their altered circumstances. — Peter Manseau

There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an unknown world, a place where there are caves and shadows and dwellers in twilight. It is possible that man may sometimes return on the track of evolution, and it is my belief that an awful lore is not yet dead. — Arthur Machen

Machinations are divined. Response is by nature, nurture, experience and if sought peer pressure. You are the owner of free will. Choose. — Truth Devour

Every human being and every society is what it is by virtue of the highest to which it looks up. The city, if it is healthy, looks up, not to the laws which it can unmake as it made them, but to the unwritten laws, the divine law, the gods of the city. The city must transcend itself. ...the most important consideration concerns that which transcends the city or which is higher than the city; it does not concern things which are simply subordinate to the city. — Leo Strauss

The pearl only weighs the oyster down. — Marty Rubin

A lot of people say I'm like a pop girl, but I don't know what that means. — Katy B

You are not responsible for the past, but insofar as you do nothing, you are complicit in the present created by it. — Jonathan R. Miller

I love when people are resilient and when they form ways of dealing with grief or dealing with some traumatic episode, and sometimes those are the wrong choices. — Atom Egoyan

Why,' said the Dodo, 'the best way to explain it is to do it. — Lewis Carroll

We must all live so that our children do not have to pay for our deeds. — Andrejs Upits

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy. — Marcus Aurelius

Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving. — John Fletcher

Never doubt your abilities. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It may be no surprise that Pittsburgh has direct flights to London, Paris and Frankfurt, but consider this: many of the tourists here have come from Europe to the capital of culture in the Alleghenies. — Bill Dedman