Ursis Major Quotes & Sayings

Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards. — Nicholas Sparks

(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

I think human beings are almost, by definition, religious people,in the sense that we ask questions of meaning, we anticipate future events, we deal with the issues of mortality from the first time we see a dead bird as a little child. — John Shelby Spong

Here up north we worship the sun in big gulps.
p 135 — Michael Perry

Everything we learn - economics, philosophy, biology, mathematics - has to be understood in light of the overarching reality of the character of God. That is why, in the Middle Ages, theology was called "the queen of the sciences" and philosophy "her handmaiden." Today the queen has been deposed from her throne and, in many cases, driven into exile, and a supplanter now reigns. We have replaced theology with religion. — R.C. Sproul

Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning of Western Civilization; an insult to the principles of our Declaration of Independence; a bane of our national spirit; and a stench in the nostrils of Almighty God. — Chuck Baldwin

I didn't think it was my dream to be on Broadway; it just sort of became that, and then it just became me wanting it more and more and more. — Jennifer Damiano

In vain will the world seek for equality until it has seen all men through the eyes of faith. Faith teaches that all men, however poor, or ignorant, or crippled, however maimed, ugly, or degraded they may be, all bear within themselves the image of God, and have been bought by the precious blood of Jesus Christ. As this truth is forgotten, men are valued only because of what they can do, not because of what they are. — Fulton J. Sheen

We dont have to accept each others beliefs..but we do have to accept each others right to believe them. — Jodi Picoult

Naturally, the significant results that legitimize a mathematical theory take time to derive, and then even more time to be fully accepted, and of course throughout this time the Insanity-v.-Genius question remains undecided, probably even for the mathematician himself, so that he's developing his theory and cooking his proofs under conditions of enormous personal stress and doubt, and sometimes isn't even vindicated in his own lifetime, etc. — David Foster Wallace

She had nothing to do all day ... but did it with the greatest possible speed. — Cees Nooteboom

With self-awareness you grow more intelligent. In awareness you learn, in self-awareness you learn about yourself. Of course, you can only learn what you are not. To know what you are, you must go beyond the mind. Awareness is the point at which the mind reaches out beyond itself into reality. In awareness you seek not what pleases, but what is true. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Wait a minute," Quentin said. "Who or what is the Thames dragon?" "The Thames dragon," Eliot said. "You know. The dragon who lives in the Thames. — Lev Grossman

I absolutely believe my talent is God-given. I ask God for a lot, but I also thank him. I'm a very demanding believer. — Hubert De Givenchy

Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious. — Kristin Cashore