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

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

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Future
  • Party
  • Politics

• 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

• 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

• A lot of people don't like to win. They actually don't know how to win, and they don't like to win because down deep inside they don't want to win.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Deep

• Society can take two roads - the road to genuine prosperity, or the road to artificial stimulus. The first results in a permanent higher standard of living for all; the latter creates an inflationary boom that cannot last.

  

  Mark Skousen
  • Society
  • Road

• The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.

  

  Mikhail Bakunin
  • Reason
  • Practice
  • Humans

• Exchange ideas frequently.

  

  James Cash Penney

• Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

  

  Jonathan Edwards
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Prayer

• I'm not here to impose Sharia law, and I'm not here to have a message about disability being inspirational - I'm here to make people laugh. But when I can layer things and make people not only laugh but question, make people not only laugh but be offended... I have to do that.

  

  Maysoon Zayid
  • People
  • Law
  • Question

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

  

  Nachman of Breslov