Taloche Platre Quotes & Sayings

Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride.
Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair.
Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness. — Blaise Pascal

If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic. — Moby

Wisdom is found in the heart not the head. — Pierce Brown

He knew how she felt. It was the way he felt himself, sometimes, if he woke in the small hours, at three a.m., a time when the world seemed empty and stripped of comforting illusion. A time when you knew you were a mote, transient and fragile in a vast universe, a candle flame in an empty hall. — Terry Pratchett

The irony is that if we make every imperative into a command to believe the gospel more fully, we turn the gospel into one more thing we have to get right, and faith becomes the one thing we need to be better at. — Kevin DeYoung

I spent all the money I had, to get the sacred books of my life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up. — W. Somerset Maugham

The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milton, the Greek tragedian and Shakespeare, Chaucer and Cervantes and Swift, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and James and Conrad. Time does not make their voices fainter, on the contrary, it reinforces our sense of their truth-telling capacity. — Wendy Lesser

You say your image is new, but it looks well tested. — Ray Davies