Eric Metaxas Quotes
If you accept my thesis that the universe and this earth are the most outrageous miracles by an infinite margin, then you will understand that simply for us to exist requires a miracle.
Quotes to Explore
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
Octavio Paz
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I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
Eden Ahbez
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln
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If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. Lawrence
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Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
Pankaj Mishra
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There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!
Patricia Sun
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
Valentina Tereshkova
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We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.
Edith Widder
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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
Paracelsus
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I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.
Ignatius of Antioch
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The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.
Ram Dass
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There's an entire universe in every single tweet, and it all really depends on the content as far as how it's going to spread.
Jack Dorsey
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The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.
Said Nursi
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If an alien race lands on the planet Earth tomorrow and asks me to prove I'm really here, what do I do? What do I give them? What do I tell them? What do I show them? I can't sing or dance. I can't paint. I've never built anything, and I've never contributed anything significant to the human race.
Macaulay Culkin
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To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
Federico Garcia Lorca
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Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
Walt Whitman
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If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have a system of mendicancy [begging] such as the world never knew”. After a million had starved to death he stated “The great evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.
Charles Trevelyan
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The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
John Steinbeck
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
Nadine Gordimer
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A man should be free to do what he wants to do, as long as it doesn't hurt others.
David Gemmell
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Perpendicular recording is what will allow us to offer fairly dense drives. We see that becoming more prevalent into 2006.
Bob Moore
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If you accept my thesis that the universe and this earth are the most outrageous miracles by an infinite margin, then you will understand that simply for us to exist requires a miracle.
Eric Metaxas