Follies Of God Quotes

#1. All of us are seeking a home, and I don't mean where we were born, or where we now live and have things, but where we can do the big things, the right things. Where we belong, where we fit, where we're loved."--Tennessee Williams, "Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog

James Grissom

#2. There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader.

David Bezmozgis

#3. When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.

Terrence Malick

#4. Traffic with the world is laid upon us for chastening, and for the testing of our vocation. The grace of God is not endangered by the follies or the wickedness of men.

Ellis Peters

#5. Be courageous and face this moment in time consciously and with all the discernment and clarity within your power.

James O'Dea

#6. Peace needs energetic hands, pure faces and open hearts.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#7. I wish the state of enthusiasm I am now in may last, for today I FELT there is a God. I have been devotional and my mind has been led away from the follies that it is mostly wrapped up in.

Elizabeth Fry

#8. One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.

Kevin Smith

#9. People who love do the impossible all the time.

Germaine Shames

#10. To live life is all about politics

Ranu Das

#11. Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#12. I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.

Lance Reddick

#13. O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

#14. Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.

Joni Mitchell

#15. With faith anything can be solved

NightBits

#16. [In Christianity] humans are invited to co-create in mutual kenosis with this God who weaves our sins, mistakes, and follies into a pattern, and thus offers us salvation contingent on our willingness to have it.

Maggie Ross

#17. Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God ... It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

#18. The direction we're heading is more important than individual results.

Tony Robbins