Weerts Obituaries Quotes & Sayings

God is a different league of person from us, but God is a person like us, not an abstract force or a principle. So despite the huge difference, Genesis says we are made in God's image. Human beings are the kind of entity God would be if God were earthly. God could hardly have become a horse; horses were not made in God's image. Human beings were made God-like, so it was not so unnatural for God to become a human being. It is this fact that makes it possible for God sometimes to appear in human form in the Old Testament, and it eventually makes possible, even makes natural, God's incarnation in Christ. In this sense it was not logically difficult for God to become a human being although it involved some sacrifice. — John E. Goldingay

Part of the sin of Pride is a subtle but deep racism. — K.P. Yohannan

They fascinated him, the unsubtle cowering of the almost rich in the presence of the rich, and the rich in the presence of the very rich; to have money, it seemed, was to be consumed by money. Obinze felt repulsion and longing; he pitied them, but he also imagined being like them. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time. — Anne Rice

Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides. — Victor Grignard

The Republican establishment has been pushing for lightweight Senator Marco Rubio to say anything to hit [Donald]Trump. I signed the pledge. Careful. — Donald Trump

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique. — Robertson Davies

My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength. — Robert Peel

I am a continuation like the rain is the continuation of the cloud. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Asking the right questions is as important as answering them — Benoit Mandelbrot

Small movie, small role, giant movie, giant role. Work is work. You've got to tell the truth and show up. — Michael Keaton

She seemed to see a flash of bright sunlight on dark green water, fragmented into brilliant shards by the splashing rise and fall of oars. — J.K. Rowling

For the activity of the mind is life — Aristotle.

(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man's power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm that has enabled him to dispense with human nature. — Anthony Trollope

What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself. — Samuel Richardson