Pusey Quotes

#1. God's chief gift to those who seek him is Himself.

Edward Bouverie Pusey

#2. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true, that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during "God Save the King" than stealing from a poor box

George Orwell

#3. Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.

Helen Thomas

#4. Whoso neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do, because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself; it is not too little, but too great for him, that he doeth it not.

Edward Bouverie Pusey

#5. We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.

Nathan M. Pusey

#6. Learn to commend thy daily acts to God, so shall the dry every-day duties of common life be steps to heaven, and lift they heart hither.

Edward Bouverie Pusey

#7. God does not take away trials or carry us over them, but strengthens us through them.

Edward Bouverie Pusey

#8. After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.

Dikembe Mutombo

#9. Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Edward Bouverie Pusey

#10. People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.

E. O. Wilson

#11. With me; it's just a genetic dissatisfaction with everything.

Woody Allen

#12. We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.

Andrzej Wajda

#13. Never dwell on the tomorrow; remember, that it's God's and not ours.

Edward Bouverie Pusey

#14. To acknowledge the need of a new world-view would undermine the whole of their activity, and not many thinkers were willing to pay that price. Particularly not in a society where social exclusion meant rapid transportation to the proudest invention of the humanist sciences: the mental hospital.

Alexander Bard

#15. It is a form of generational narcissism to change texts to suit one's own needs.

Luke Timothy Johnson

#16. If there is anything education does not lack today it is critics.

Nathan M. Pusey

#17. Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.

Caroline Leavitt

#18. There must be reserves
except with God. The human soul is solitary. But for confession that is different; justice and reparation sometimes demand it; but, again, justice and courage sometimes forbid it.

Margaret Deland

#19. In all adversity, what God takes away He may give us back with increase.

Edward Bouverie Pusey