Seraphim Rose Quotes

#1. I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.

Flea

#2. Why is the truth, it would seem, revealed to some and not to others? Is there a special organ for receiving revelation from God? Yes, though usually we close it and do not let it open up: God's revelation is given to something called a loving heart.

Seraphim Rose

#3. Shouting has never made me understand anything.

Susan Sontag

#4. Only with the idea (which has become rare today) that there is a revealed truth that is above all experience, can this occult realm be enlightened, its true nature recognized and a discernment made between this lower realm and the higher realm of heaven.

Seraphim Rose

#5. If others in the same Glass better see
'Tis for Themselves they look, but not for me:
For my Salvation must its Doom receive
Not from what others, but what I believe.

John Dryden

#6. Now it is quite true to say that curiosity, exactly like its analogue, lust, never ends and is never satisfied; but man was made for something more than this. He was made to rise, above curiosity and lust, to love, and through love to the attainment of truth.

Seraphim Rose

#7. I do remember when it occurred to me the first time, when I got the idea of painting the way I feel at a given moment. I was sitting in a chair and felt it pressing against me. I still have the drawings where I depicted the sensation of sitting.

Maria Lassnig

#8. Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real attempt to grapple with the true God. ... Nietzsche, in calling himself Antichrist, proved thereby his intense hunger for Christ.

Seraphim Rose

#9. I have said that music allows for quick creation. But it is nothing compared with what you humans can destroy in a single conversation.

Mitch Albom

#10. Life felt like it was going to be too long. I wanted out.

Adam Silvera

#11. Prosperity, alas! is often but another name for pride.

Lydia Sigourney

#12. I'm a devoted husband. That must strike you as totally deviant.

Iain Banks

#13. Christ is the only exit from this world; all other exits-sexual rapture, political utopia, economic independence-are but blind alleys in which rot the corpses of the many who have tried them

Fr. Seraphim Rose

#14. It is essential to realise, that, while we make efforts to live the Christian life today, the world which have formed in our spoiled times, demands soul, both in the everyday life and in the religion, and can be called totalitarian.

Seraphim Rose

#15. Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.

Stephen Jay Gould

#16. Writhing bodies fused as one on the dance floor, limbs tingling, lungs drunk on the lust-filled air.

Sidney Knight

#17. One of my biggest challenges is figuring out how to shoehorn my newfound knowledge into conversations.

A. J. Jacobs