Zen Calvinism Quotes & Sayings

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested. — Hervey Allen

I don't know who I am. I look at myself and I see Stephen Herondale, but I act like a Lightwood and talk like my father - like Valentine. So I see who I am in your eyes, and I try to be that person, because you have faith in that person and I think faith might be enough to make me what you want. — Cassandra Clare

It's okay to be afraid. God is not disappointed by your fear. — Shirley Corder

Joy and happiness are the treasures of life and it comes when we appreciate and express gratitude for the abundance of our life. — Debasish Mridha

The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly. — Robert Sternberg

Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I've never had a message for anyone in my entire life. Except maybe to give out my room number. — Bon Scott

For he is superstitious grown of late,
Quite from the main opinion he held once
Of fantasy, of dreams, and ceremonies. — William Shakespeare

I love food. I'm a big food person. I'm really passionate about eating good food all the time. — Dreama Walker

Under the current 'tyranny of slenderness' women are forbidden to become large or massive; they must take up as little space as possible. The very contours of a woman's body takes on as she matures - the fuller breasts and rounded hips - have become distateful. The body by which a woman feels herself judged and which by rigorous discipline she must try to assume is the body of early adolescence, slight and unformed, a body lacking flesh or substance, a body in whose very contours the image of immaturity has been inscribed. The requirement that a woman maintain a smooth and hairless skin carries further the theme of inexperience, for an infantilized face must accompany her infantilized body, a face that never ages or furrows its brow in thought. The face of the ideally feminine woman must never display the marks of character, wisdom, and experience that we so admire in men. — Sandra Lee Bartky

I am out with lanterns, looking for myself. — Emily Dickinson

Mystery is an intellectual process ... But suspense is essentially an emotional process. — Alfred Hitchcock

GOD COMMUNICATES WITH US in many ways. But prayer is a special time when God's voice is often heard most clearly because we are giving God our undivided attention. Whether in Ignatian contemplation, lectio divina, the colloquy, the examen, or any other practice, the "still small" voice can be heard with a clarity that can delight, astonish, and surprise you. So when you pray, however you pray, and feel that God is speaking to you - pay attention. — James Martin

Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse to elephant. — Frans De Waal

My manly strength will not allow me to choose a less unyielding material," Matt said. "I have rocks for muscles. You fear my strength. — Sarah Beth Durst