Amida Quotes

#1. Such events may be disbelieved or disregarded; but the charity of a bishop, Acacius of Amida, whose name might have dignified the saintly calendar, shall not be lost in oblivion.

Edward Gibbon

#2. Amida's unimpeded light is the sun of wisdom that destroys the mind of darkness.
(Preface in Teaching, Practice, Faith, Enlightenment)

Kentetsu Takamori

#3. Although I too am within Amida's grasp,
Passions obstruct my eyes and I cannot see him;
Nevertheless, great compassion is untiring and illumines me always.

Shinran Shonin

#4. Popularity is teenage heroin.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#5. Jesus is Jesus. So, I'm not sure I'd get into the business of making somebody into Jesus. That's just me.

Andy Andrews

#6. In the distant golden sunset sky, a magnificent rainbow is opening wings to fly.

Debasish Mridha

#7. You know, I never felt like I was young at the time and obviosly having Mia was absolutely planned. It's only know when I meet people who are my age and single, [with] no kids, that I reflect and say, 'Bloody hell? I really have leaved at a fast pace.'

Kate Winslet

#8. Cold has a thousand ways of moving in the world: on the sea it gallops like a troop of horses, on the countryside it falls like a swarm of locusts, in the cities like a knife-blade it slashes the streets and penetrates the chinks of unheated houses.

Italo Calvino

#9. It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.

John Drinkwater

#10. A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn't see it that way.

Bryan Robson

#11. I'd rather have flowers in my hair, than diamonds around my neck.

Alli Simpson

#12. Oh, sorry. I'm not ... uh ... interrupting something that will make me uncomfortable, am I?

G.A. Aiken