Utamiyum Quotes & Sayings

A survey reported that the majority of the seminaries [in the United States] had no classes on prayer. That really shouldn't surprise us when we consider how many local churches offer classes on gardening and the "Art of Conversation" instead of the study of God's Word and prayer. — Billy Graham

Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me. — George W. S. Trow

Its helpful to know the reasons for our faith ... it helps us not be so vulnerable to doubt, and it helps us not be so vulnerable to false doctrine. — Holly Ordway

Why send a letter when you can send something truly magnificent? — Cassandra Clare

A man walks into a bar, and he said OUCH, cause it was an iron bar. — Tommy Cooper

Apparently, philosophy persists, even though less obviously and less insistently than once. If John has trimmed his interests to conform to the expectations of the adult world, that's a shame. But if he has simply moved on to other interests, that's natural enough. There's more to life than philosophy. — Gareth B. Matthews

The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. There is a clear difference in tonality. One's gaze never lingers on the suffering humanity of Christ, but penetrates behind the kenotic veil. To the West's mysticism of the Cross and its veneration of the Sacred Heart corresponds the eastern mysticism of the sealed tomb, from which eternal life eternal wells up. — Paul Evdokimov

Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you. — Tony Hsieh

The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust, something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens. — Pietro Metastasio

I believe that the harm which Mill has done to the world by the passage in his book on Political Economy in which he favours the principle of Protection in young communities, has outweighed all the good which may have been caused by his other writings. — Richard Cobden

In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family. — Monica Bellucci

Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises. — Sharon Salzberg

To each our own Hamlet. — Jasper Fforde