Torchinsky Obituary Quotes & Sayings

THEOLOGY IS THE study of God and his ways. For all we know, dung beetles may study man and his ways and call it humanology. If so, we would probably be more touched and amused than irritated. One hopes that God feels likewise. — Frederick Buechner

O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never forget, that compassion makes the world noble and beautiful. — Gautama Buddha

I'm asking Muslims in the West a very basic question: Will we remain spiritually infantile, caving to cultural pressures to clam up and conform, or will we mature into full-fledged citizens, defending the very pluralism that allows us to be in this part of the world in the first place? My question for non-Muslims is equally basic: Will you succumb to the intimidation of being called "racists," or will you finally challenge us Muslims to take responsibility for our role in what ails Islam? — Irshad Manji

I was out of sorts. They are deep, my sorts, a deep ditch, and I am not often out of them. — Samuel Beckett

I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music. — Merle Travis

Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet
Could rule them both without ten women's wit. — William Shakespeare

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Success is sequential, not simultaneous — Gary W. Keller

I can give you a spirit love, I have given you this long, long time; but not embodied passion. See, you are a nun. I have given you what I would give a holy nun ... In all our relations no body enters. I do not talk to you through the senses - rather through the spirit. That is why we cannot love in the common sense. — D.H. Lawrence

In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor. — John Updike

God is going to use me to reach the young people, I don't know how, I don't know when. — Beth Nimmo