Colin Gunton Quotes
To image the being of God towards the world, to be the priest of creation, is to behave towards the world in all its aspects, of work, and of play, in such a way that it may come to be what it was created to be, that which praises its maker by becoming perfect in its own way. In all this, there is room for both usefulness and beauty to take their due place, but differently according to differences of activity and object.
Colin Gunton
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I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.
Samuel Johnson
There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.
Alan Watts
With the Patriot Bill in place, the NSA no longer needed to get a warrant from a judge to tap into anybody's electronic information. A Surveillance State that would have boggled the mind of Orwell was born.
Jay Parini
I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.
Brian P. Cleary
Anonymous comments? You're not in the arena, man. If you can't say it to me in person in front of my kids, don't say it.
Brené Brown
Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it's my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me.
Antonio Banderas
About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.
Albert Einstein
People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
Mark Twain
He who would pray, must obey.
Edward McKendree Bounds
To image the being of God towards the world, to be the priest of creation, is to behave towards the world in all its aspects, of work, and of play, in such a way that it may come to be what it was created to be, that which praises its maker by becoming perfect in its own way. In all this, there is room for both usefulness and beauty to take their due place, but differently according to differences of activity and object.
Colin Gunton