237 quotes found
“...true wisdom is the skill and practice of death.”
“Of the things that followed I cannot say at all whether they were what men call dream. And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees...”
“I could mend my soul no more than my face. Unless the gods helped. And why did the gods not help?”
“We want cattle who can finally become food; He wants servants who can finally become sons. We want to suck in, He wants to give out. We are empty and would be filled; He is full and flows over. Our...”
“How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”
“Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?”
“It is the gods who have been accused. They have answered her. If they in turn accuse her, a greater judge and a more excellent court must try the case.”
“You're a tree in whose shadow we can't thrive. We want to be our own.”
“We'd rather they were ours and dead than yours and made immortal.”
“Once you have made the world an end, and faith a means, you have almost won your man, and it makes very little difference what kind of worldly end he is pursuing.”
“He cannot ravish. He can only woo.”
“We want the Church to be small not only that fewer men may know the Enemy but also that those who do may acquire the uneasy intensity and the defensive self-righteousness of a secret society or a c...”
“Some ages are lukewarm and complacent, and then it is our business to soothe them yet faster asleep. Other ages, of which the present is one, are unbalanced and prone to faction, and it is our busi...”
“As long as he does not convert it into action, it does not matter how much he thinks about this new repentance.”
“The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents--or in a sunrise, an el...”
“The person who tolerates exactly (with understanding) hands over his case to nature. There is no need to punish anyone. Nature itself will punish him.”
“When we are angry, when we are excited, when we are depressed, when we are elated, we are completely submerged in and identified with those thoughts and feelings. This is why we suffer. We suffer b...”
“For I do not seek to understand so that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.”
“-- So this is the measure of your God's Mercy.-- No. This is the measure of Pharaoh's soul.”
“:You Can overcome any obstacle. You can achieve the most tremendous things by faith power.”
