Excoriate Quotes

#1. The antitheist is quick to excoriate all religious belief by generically laying the blame at the door of all who claim to be religious, without distinction. By the same measure, why is there not an equal enthusiasm to distribute blame for violence engendered by some of the irreligious?

Ravi Zacharias

#2. I have no intention of inflicting all my childhood memories on anyone. Far less do I want to excoriate my old teachers who, in their bungling, unforgettable way, exposed me to the natural world, a world covered in chitin, where implacable realities hold sway.

Annie Dillard

#3. When Jesus came in the form of a servant, he was not disguising who God is. He was revealing who God is.

John Ortberg

#4. If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature.

Michel De Montaigne

#5. There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, very inexpensive, short times taken in the midst of a big push of work, but they should be always more than just food.

Edith Schaeffer

#6. God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't.

Doris Lessing

#7. To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

Mark Twain