Verran And Snyder Halpern Quotes & Sayings

We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

A Conrad student informed me in Scotland that Africa is merely a setting for the disintegration of the mind of Mr. Kurtz.
Which is partly the point. Africa as setting and backdrop which eliminates the African as human factor. Africa as a metaphysical battlefield devoid of all recognizable humanity, into which the wandering European enters at his peril. Can nobody see the preposterous and perverse arrogance in thus reducing Africa to the role of props for the break-up of one petty European mind? But that is not even the point. The real question is the dehumanization of Africa and Africans which this age-long attitude has fostered and continues to foster in the world. And the question is whether a novel which celebrates this dehumanization, which depersonalizes a portion of the human race, can be called a great work of art. — Chinua Achebe

Well, Cowboy, if my pussy is ever in need of being rescued, then I'll be sure to give you a call. Until then, you'll just have to play with your own hose. — Alison Bliss

Oh my friends, we are loaded with countless church activities, while the real work of the church, that of evangelizing and winning the lost is almost entirely neglected. — Oswald J. Smith

Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature. — Henri Rousseau

And as their penile pain began to subside, the two men were able to form more complex thoughts, resulting in a collaborative work: the development of a worldview that might be described as penilosophy. — Zack Love

The Sufis have said: 'The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness. — Idries Shah

Happiness Is When Your Heart and Soul Are Walking Hand In Hand — Marieke Stoop

The social body persists although the component cells may change. — Aldous Huxley

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity. — Samuel Johnson