Tovelling Quotes & Sayings

Watch out for people who try to dazzle you with big words and intellectual double-talk. They want to drag you off into endless arguments that never amount to anything. They spread their ideas through the empty traditions of human beings and the empty superstitions of spirit beings. But that's not the way of Christ. Everything of God gets expressed in him, so you can see and hear him clearly. You don't need a telescope, a microscope, or a horoscope to realize the fullness of Christ, and the emptiness of the universe without him. When you come to him, that fullness comes together for you, too. His power extends over everything. 11-15 Entering into this fullness — Eugene H. Peterson

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent ... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering. — Alan Watts

Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn. — Michael Novak

Have I done the world good, or have I added a menace? — Guglielmo Marconi

Coincidence is important, the convergence of different ideas. — Dries Van Noten

We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp. — Walt Disney

There is nothing to fear on earth but sin. Prison and death are nothing compared to a guilty conscience. If we are destined to suffer unjustly, if all the world forsake us, God will not. Whatever happens, then, let us put our trust in God. — Christoph Von Schmid

But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh. — Carol Burnett

We are full of anarchy. We take our clothes off because we shouldn't take our clothes off. And we behave worse in other countries. — Michael Ondaatje