Nachman of Breslov Quotes

If all the ancient sacred writings had been preserved, some would be found to be heretical.

Nachman of Breslov

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• It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Time
  • God
  • Parents

• Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Religion
  • Sex
  • 20th Century

• What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Future
  • Party
  • Politics

• I have personally seen Ted Cruz stand up and fight on the issues that matter the most to conservatives, even when it wasn't popular in Congress.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Popular
  • Fight

• Christlike communications are expressed in tones of love rather than loudness. They are intended to be helpful rather than hurtful. They tend to bind us together rather than to drive us apart. They tend to build rather than to belittle.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Love
  • Together
  • Helpful

• I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, I've wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Dad

• A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, 'Oh, this thought is just occurring to me right now' - and speaking sincerely.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Trying
  • Thought
  • Preparation

• It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Kind
  • Myself
  • Reputation

• Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Up
  • Night
  • Myself

• My closest friends today are, in fact, my friends from college.

  

  Vijay
  • Friends
  • Today
  • College

• Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Wisdom

• I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a painter.' And sometimes that joke felt like, 'Oh that's a good idea.' But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Sometimes
  • Moment

• Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • You
  • motivation
  • Succeed

• The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Time
  • May
  • Me

• I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Practice

• If Christ came back tomorrow, He'd have to change planes in Frankfurt. Modern air travel means less time spent in transit. That time is now spent in transit lounges.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • Air
  • Travel

• At this moment, the laurel bush, which had hitherto not spoken, said 'Psst!'

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• If states do not act according to principles of justice, the injustices they perpetrate will harm not just other states but ultimately also their own national interest.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Justice

• It seemed that my brother and I were always fighting in the back seat, and there was never any real reason for it.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Real
  • Fighting
  • Brother

• Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted, be hampered and ill-treated in its adolescence - by want of means, by selfish interest, pedantry, stupidity and ignorance; that it be attacked and stifled; that it pass through bitter trials and tribulations, through the heartless strife of commercial existence. So do we get our light. So all that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed - only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Light
  • Struggle
  • Idea

• Years ago, I predicted that Iran would take over Iraq. Iran and Iraq used to fight back and forth.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Fight
  • Predict

• I'm a Giants fan through and through. I am crazy about Eli Manning. I'm all about the Giants.

  

  Jesse McCartney
  • Crazy

• Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!

  

  Errol Morris
  • Movie
  • Ideas
  • Reflect

• If all the ancient sacred writings had been preserved, some would be found to be heretical.

  

  Nachman of Breslov