Lingenfelter Center Quotes

#1. Thomas seems to be implying a threefold, originally Neoplatonic, model that he would have known through the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius, comprising (1) God in God-self; (2) the exitus, or procession of creatures from God; and finally (3) the reditus, or the return of creatures to God.

Bernard McGinn

#2. The bleached ceilings, walls, and floors gleam in perfection. Drained of color, wiped of contamination, forever untainted they exist; a cold reminder of my purity.

Celeste Simone

#3. My longing for someone to talk to made Himillsy the lightning bug in my honey jar. I punched holes in the lid so she could breathe.

Chip Kidd

#4. There is no language so filthy as Spanish. There are words for all the vile words in English and there are other words and expressions that are used only in countries where blasphemy keeps pace with the austerity of religion.

Ernest Hemingway,

#5. If it is indeed the business of imagination to make politics distrust itself - reminding it that its principles are not literal facts but constructs of imagination - it is also its business to encourage politics to remake itself by remaking its images of the good life.

Richard Kearney

#6. It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.

Eckhart Tolle

#8. Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market.

Gary Miller

#9. One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.

Jane Austen

#10. The clothes or accessories you do or don't wear are a statement, a reflection of yourself; that is why you should always try to wear 'who you are' not anyone else.

Sandra Chami Kassis

#11. I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

Dolly Parton

#12. Be ashamed to catch yourself idle.

Benjamin Franklin

#13. Should is not very inspiring. (You should never say should.)

Devora Zack

#14. Politics envelops us like the coils of a snake and no way out but to wrestle with it

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. As long as we think we own anything, that thing owns us. As soon as we know that we own nothing, then God owns us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer