Lionel Trilling Quotes
It is one thing, then, to say, 'The Bible contains the religion revealed by God,' and quite another to say, 'Whatever is contained in the Bible is religion, and was revealed by God.' If the latter be accepted, metaphor and allegory become literal statements and the errors and absurdities of bibliolatry follow.
Lionel Trilling
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Patricia Ireland
The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
Patrick Swayze
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
Beck
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I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.
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The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.
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Now suppose that the clue experiences that can correct the illusion become for some reason increasingly scarce – perhaps because the dominant story itself brings about their elimination! Then the illusion might go on for a very long time, might have to result in real catastrophe, before anyone realizes anything is wrong.
Val Plumwood
It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.
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True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
Judith McNaught
It is one thing, then, to say, 'The Bible contains the religion revealed by God,' and quite another to say, 'Whatever is contained in the Bible is religion, and was revealed by God.' If the latter be accepted, metaphor and allegory become literal statements and the errors and absurdities of bibliolatry follow.
Lionel Trilling