Totius Primary Quotes & Sayings

The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude. — Thomas Merton

Human life is an extension of the principles of nature, and human civilization is a venture extrapolated out of human natures: man and his natural potential are the root of the entire human domain. The great task of all philosophizing is to become competent to interpret and steer the potential developmental forces in human natures and in the human condition, both of which are prodigiously fatalistic. — Kenny Smith

Philosophically, you can believe anything, so long as you do not claim it to be true. Morally, you can practice anything, so long as you do not claim that it is a "better" way. Religiously, you can hold to anything, so long as you do not bring Jesus Christ into it. If a spiritual idea is eastern, it is granted critical immunity; if western, it is thoroughly criticized. Thus, a journalist can walk into a church and mock its carryings on, but he or she dare not do the same if the ceremony is from the eastern fold. Such is the mood at the end of the twentieth century. — Ravi Zacharias

I love, I love beauty
and in it I worship my follies,
the ones I found on my own,
and the ones to which I was led — Adonis

I rolled my eyes and smiled at him. "You're impossible."
"True, but you like me anyway." He pulled me tighter. — S.C. Stephens