Toriano Quotes & Sayings

Religion is like a pair of shoes ... Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes. — George Carlin

Old customs are easy to forget with the flashing of events in our lives. Easy to forget, like the heavy clothing we once wore to survive the winters. It is an old custom, the handing down of things. A good knife, a well-made pipe, a heavy robe. Tradition falls prey to constant change, and creativity becomes so revered that the past is a relic, only to be admired. But in this coat, I was held to the earth, pulled to the past by its weight. — Craig Childs

Theurgy is ritual magic - but magic that enacts the will of God, not of the magician. It brings divine energies down to earth, elevating and spiritualizing the world of matter, including the very being and substance of the participants. Each time the believer takes part with attention and devotion, he or she becomes more attuned to God. — Richard Smoley

There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it ... — Alan Paton

In the Red Sea of His own blood, our Redeemer has drowned the Pharaoh of our sins! — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We found, before the hands of the dial had taught us the lapse of a week, that this would be something not to be endured. The sun sank lower every day behind the crags and silvery horns; the heavens grew to wear a hue of violet, almost black, and yet unbearably dazzling; as the notes of our voices fell upon the atmosphere they assumed a metallic tone, as if the air itself had become frozen from the beginning of the world and they tinkled against it; our sufferings had mounted in their intensity till they were too great to be resisted. — Harriet Prescott Spofford

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it. — Robinson Jeffers

Why, it proves that you believe with your generation. Your saints lived in an age of faith, when it was practically impossible to disbelieve what to us is positively incredible." "Then how d'you know that we have the truth now?" "I don't. — William Somerset Maugham

I'm lucky on so many counts - I'm lucky to be alive. — Cory Monteith

God does not relish our sufferings, but He delights in our development. — Max Lucado

Head Bitch in charge, luvah... — Mia Asher

But the problem with being weird was that everyone else was normal. So — Maggie Stiefvater

Love of justice is for most men only the courage to suffer injustice. — Comte De Lautreamont