Timeways Quotes & Sayings

From the premise that Christianity is true it follows that the far-off glimpse of joy produced by fantasy is a glimpse of truth; that a great eucatastrophic tale like The Lord of the Rings is a gift of divine grace, an opening of the curtain that veils Heaven to earthly eyes, a tiny telepathic contact with the Mind of God. — Peter Kreeft

Microcredit is about giving hope. — Natalie Portman

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough. — Lucy Larcom

Great hatred can be concealed in the countenance, and much in a kiss. — Publilius Syrus

One of the core ideas of the Bible is that meaning can be found in history. The sheer act of telling and retelling stories helps us to understand God's role in the world as well as our own position in a long line of ancestors who have wrestled with similar issues to the ones we wrestle with every day. — Bruce Feiler

Before you can live anything, in what you are calling physical manifestation - you have to have conjured it in vibrational form. You have to have imagined it before it can become a reality. Everything that you are living here in this physical body, you have imagined the essence of it before you are living it. — Esther Hicks

Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective. — Sheila Rowbotham

There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing. — Gabe Paul

In his gambling, he had one besetting weakness
faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain. — Jack London

The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all. — Vincent Van Gogh

soul is taken as a subject matter to receive in the future life the reward or the punishment from God for our actions in this life; but the very idea of eternal punishment is inconsistent with the boundless love of God. — Kaiten Nukariya

What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one who suffers and the one who feels compassion. In kindness there are two: the one who gives and the one who receives. But in love there is only one; the two join, unite, become inseparable. The 'I' and the 'you' vanish. To love means to lose oneself in the beloved. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Better safe than sorry! — Jodi Picoult

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. — Jose Bergamin

Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person. — Anne Tyler