Martin Luther Quotes

The organ in the worship service is a sign of Baal.

Martin Luther

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• There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Men
  • Children

• I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Television

• When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.

  

  John Travolta
  • People
  • Littles
  • Window

• Wait on God and He will work, but don't wait in spiritual sulks because you cannot see an inch in front of you! Are we detached enough from our spiritual hysterics to wait on God? To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • God
  • Spiritual

• O supreme and unapproachable light! O whole and blessed truth, how far art thou from me, who am so near to thee! How far removed art thou from my vision, though I am so near to thine! Everywhere thou art wholly present, and I see thee not. In thee I move, and in thee I have my being; and I cannot come to thee. Thou art within me, and about me, and I feel thee not.

  

  Anselm of Canterbury
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Light

• Get into the habit of singing a tune. It will give you new life and fill you with joy. Get into the habit of dancing. It will displace depression and dispel hardship.

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Joy

• If a pickpocket meets a Holy Man, he will see only His pockets.

  

  Baba Hari Dass
  • Men
  • Spirituality
  • Pockets

• A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

  

  E. B. White
  • Poetry
  • Doe
  • Veils

• This is a perfect snapshot of the West at twilight. On the one hand, governments of developed nations microregulate every aspect of your life in the interests of 'keeping you safe.' ... On the other hand, when it comes to 'keeping you safe' from real threats, such as a millenarian theocracy that claims universal jurisdiction, America and its allies do nothing. ... It is now certain that Tehran will get its nukes, and very soon. This is the biggest abdication of responsibility by the Western powers since the 1930s.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Life
  • Real
  • America

• We have the right to swing our arm until it hits the other fellow's nose.

  

  Zechariah Chafee

• The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • Unconscious
  • Discourse

• Every young person is going to be inspired to be a maker from now on. It's like how everyone used to want to be a musician, an actor, an athlete -- but a maker is what people are going to want to be.

  

  will.i.am
  • People
  • Inspired
  • Athlete

• Yes, we started out as the Sex Maggots, then became the Goo Goo Dolls, well, and we're still the Goo Goo Dolls!

  

  Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls
  • Started out
  • Sex Maggots
  • Goo Goo Dolls

• That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.

  

  Plato
  • Education
  • Orientation
  • Organ

• Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Religion
  • Worship

• Everyone I have lost in the closing of a door the click of the lock is not forgotten, they do not die but remain within the soft edges of the earth, the ash of house fires and cancer in sin and forgiveness huddled under old blankets dreaming their way into my hands, my heart closing tight like fists. - "Indian Boy Love Song #1

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Heart
  • House
  • Song

• The organ in the worship service is a sign of Baal.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Worship
  • Sign
  • Organ