Famous Quotes & Sayings

Augusten Burroughs

No matter your spiritual beliefs, if you hold any, the answer is the same: sometimes, why is not knowable. If you open the refrigerator door and a tub of Kozy Shack tapioca pudding tumbles out and splats open onto the floor, you clean it. You don’t stand there and question why it happened, how it was possible. Why doesn’t matter now.

Ayn Rand

Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange for the personal, selfish pleasure which one man derives from the virtues of another man’s character.

Benito Mussolini

For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.

Benito Mussolini

The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State -- a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values -- interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people.

Jane Goodall

Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.

Jane Goodall

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That's what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

Jane Goodall

I wouldn't even like to begin to define God - I have absolutely no idea. But what I feel, and what touches me, is a great spiritual power, which I don't even want to name. If I had to, I would say God, because I don't know any other.

Jan Morris

I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological, imaginative, and essentially spiritual, too.

Cesar Millan

Spiritual fulfillment doesn't have to mean belief in a religion or disbelief in science. ... Whether one believes in an unseen, all-knowing force, or the wonder of science and the universe, or simply the beauty of the human spirit, nearly every one of feels an inner longing to feel part of something bigger than ourselves.

Granth Sahib

Now my joys are few, and my pains are many. In utter agony, I pass my life.

C. S. Lewis

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

Greg Boyle

The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.

Charles Spurgeon

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.

Elbert Hubbard

There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.

Adelaide Anne Procter

One by one bright gifts from heaven Joys are sent thee here below; Take them readily when given, Ready, too, to let them go.

Meg Stuart

We start out weeping in lawn chairs; by the end we are actually wearing the landscape, joyfully at one with it.

Albert Einstein

I get the most joy in life out of music.

Ivo Daalder

The whole reason for a threat is to show there is a line. And show that the U.S. will respond if he crosses it.

Albert Einstein

The chicken did not cross the road. The road passed beneath the chicken.

Robert Ashley

Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.

Martin Luther

The cross alone is our theology.

Chinese Proverbs

Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light of day

Bruce Josten

I don't think it is a slam dunk, but I don't think there's much doubt that John Roberts crosses the finish line.

Jon Carey

She was a sweetheart. She was quirky, she was shy, but not if you knew her. ... (She was) just someone that crosses your path in life that was just a super person, a super human being.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.

J. I. Packer

The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.