Testyment Quotes & Sayings

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead. — Igor Stravinsky

There is a twofold knowledge of good of which God has made the mind of man capable. The first, that which is merely notional . . . and the other is, that which consists in the sense of the heart, as when the heart is sensible of pleasure and delight in the presence of the idea of it. In the former is exercised merely . . . the understanding, in distinction from the . . . disposition of the soul. Thus there is a difference between having an opinion that God is holy and gracious, and having a sense of the loveliness and beauty of that holiness and grace. There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet and having a sense of its sweetness. A man may have the former that knows not how honey tastes; but a man cannot have the latter unless he has an idea of the taste of honey in his mind. — Timothy Keller

Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that ... An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God. — James Russell Lowell

God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart. — Saint Bernard

An image can only be one element in constructing a sequence of understanding. — Germano Facetti

The boy Weneluke wove hand patterns with a string, working skillfully into abstract designs on all eight fingers: one of these represented a man and woman facing each other, and, by manipulating each sex, he arrived at a nice parody of copulation. — Peter Matthiessen

What thumbsuckers we all are ... when it comes to mothers. — Margaret Atwood

To know myself as woman in the image of God to know God as Mother and to know my own mother as a window into God: these three are inseparable.If one is implausible to the heart the other two are as well. — Roberta C. Bondi

And when you're ready to cut his balls off, I will provide the knife. — Penny Reid

There are only two sources of human vice - idleness and superstition, and only two virtues - activity and intelligence. — Leo Tolstoy

I don't engage in hypotheticals. — Leon Panetta