The Erlking Key Quotes & Sayings

We've each given the hours of our lives in dull rote jobs for other men's profit, and have been asked to be grateful for doing that. — Charles Bukowski

When you don't see Jesus for exactly what he was, you miss the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. If you don't understand Jesus, you can't understand his prayer - you don't get the prayer at all, you just get some kind of organized cant ... If God had wanted somebody with St. Francis's consistently winning personality for the job of the New Testament, he'd've picked him, you can be sure. As it was, he picked the best, the smartest, the most loving, the least sentimental, the most unimitative master he could possibly have picked. And when you miss seeing that, I swear to you, you're missing the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. The Jesus Prayer has one aim, and one aim only. To endow the person who says it with Christ-Consciousness. — J.D. Salinger

Those were the times when the great disenchantment set in. — Leonardo Padura

Hillary Clinton has a $350 billion plan that she says will make college more affordable. Which has to be better than my parents' plan to make college affordable: 'Be good at sports.' — Jimmy Fallon

I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings. — John Cage