Walt Whitman Quotes

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

Walt Whitman

Quotes to Explore

But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.

Karl Lehmann
- Political
- Church
- Outside
Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church.

Ta-Nehisi Coates
I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!

Taiye Selasi
- Work
- Live
- Home
I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

R. C. Sproul
- College
- Church
- Football
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
- May
- Silent
- Hear
I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses.

Ja Rule