Verst Ndnis Duden Quotes

#1. The great redemptive religion which has always been known as Christianity is battling against a totally diverse type of religious belief, which is only the more destructive of the Christian faith because it makes use of traditional Christian terminology.

John Gresham Machen

#2. To be an enthusiast had become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the expectations of those who knew her.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. It seems to me that smart people seem to know things and wise people know how to use what they know. Smart is a big help to a man; wise is a big help to lots of men.

Dan Groat

#4. None of that is necessary. It's not as if we're in a situation where it is us or them.There's something peculiar about talking about the moral status of animals, when we are killing and eating them for no reason whatsoever.

Gary L. Francione

#5. She remembered how Billy always picked the first apple blossoms and put them into a tin cup for her. They made the house smell like springtime. Billy said apple trees were a double blessing, first for the blossoms and then the apples.

Sandra Dallas

#6. And now, as a germination of planetary dimensions, comes the thinking layer which over its full extent develops and intertwines its fibres, not to confuse and neutralise them but to reinforce them in the living unity of a single tissue.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#7. You can't rest on yesterday's growth. You must be dedicated to growing today ... and every day.

Jim George

#8. Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself.

P.D. Ouspensky

#9. Tra la la, Fiddle dee dee,
Hope you get well soon.
Ho ho ho, hee hee hee,
Have a heart-shaped balloon.

Lemony Snicket

#10. All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

Charles Dickens

#11. No institution can become the cradle of leadership, until its teachers break their manacles of rugged dogmas.

Abhijit Naskar

#12. If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.

Timothy Keller