Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.

Robert M. Pirsig

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

Virginia Woolf

The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

Rebecca Solnit

If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

Nelson Eddy

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

Nawal El Saadawi

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

R. C. Sproul

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The opposite of nature is impossible.

Richard Baxter

As holy zeal is the fervency of our grace, so sinful zeal is the intention and fervency of sin.

Rebecca West

The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it.

William Wordsworth

But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.

Rob Bell

Grace is when you know you're loved exactly as you are.

Tullian Tchividjian

Grace loves without reference to what may or may not happen-which is precisely why such incredible things do happen!

Robert Jeffress

Christianity alone teaches that our only way for reconciliation with God is by his grace that is received through faith.

John Milton

All is, if I have grace to use it so, / As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.

Ellen Glasgow

True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.

Emily Dickinson

A courteous, yet harrowing Grace, As Guest, that would be gone

Lord Byron

I like his holiness very much, particularly since an order, which I understand he has lately given, that no more miracles shall be performed.

Marcus Mumford

I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster.

Thomas Aquinas

Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Holiness has nothing to do with what we know and everything to do with Who we know.

Stephen Jay Gould

Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.

Donald Cargill

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.

Florence Nightingale

Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.