W Quotes
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“We are like a frightened bird before him, shrinking away lest his demand crush us completely. But when we eventually yield—when he corners us and finally takes us into his hand—we find to our astonishment that he is infinitely gentle and that his only aim is to release us from our prison, to set us free to be the people he made us to be. But when we fly out into the sunshine, how can we not then offer the same gentle gift of freedom, of forgiveness, to those around us?”
Source: Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
“We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence.”
Source: The Origin of Continents and Oceans
“We are like a man who goes round a castle seeking in vain for an entrance, and sometimes sketching the facades. If we can ferret out the ultimate nature of our own minds we shall perhaps have the key to the external world.”
Source: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
“We are like a restless sea, finding a little peace here and a little pleasure there, but nothing permanent and satisfying. So the search continues!”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“We are like a rider on top of a gigantic elephant. We can steer the elephant, and if he's not busy, he'll go where we want, but if he has other desires, he'll often go where he wants. How can one control the elephant? In part, this comes with maturity. In part, this comes with the development of your frontal cortex, so the frontal areas of the brain are especially involved in self-control, in suppressing your initial instinct to act. This is why teenagers are so impulsive. So it's terrible to allow the death penalty for teenagers, because they really don't have working brains yet.”
“We are like a wishing well And a bolt of electricity”
“We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.”
“We are like an atomic structure. We've got a causal body that's linked together.”
“We are like animals afraid of scarecrows! Many of our fears are in vain!”
“We are like artists by nature, constantly we're trying to add beauty to movements.”
“We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has”
“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
Source: Cosmos
“We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation.”
“We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.”
“We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass. The castle is ours, off limits to others. We’re willing to attack if others threaten to hurt it. Yet despite all our attachment, we know that the tide will inevitably come in and sweep the sand castle away. The trick is to enjoy it fully but without clinging, and when the time comes, let it dissolve back into the sea.”
Source: When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
“We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.”
Source: Sword & Citadel
“We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.”
“We are like clay containers filled with a beautiful treasure. So often it has been the love of Jesus expressed through the life of someone I know that has made a difference in my life.”
“We are like clocks! Always ticking to the tocks. When the pieces of our soul are torn away or broken – we can’t be sent to the mending shop, however.”
Source: Red Sugar, No More
“We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.”
Source: True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival
“We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.”
“We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.”
“We are like dogs, cats, cows, rats ... What separates us from them and from the remaining matches against mammals is negligible. To have the same diseases. Rats spread plague like us, but we are just as contagious as them. And the dogs get diabetes, like we do, and get cancer, like us. And age, like us. And die, like us. Why then the biblical claim that man is the king of creation? Perhaps because only man has developed spoken language, the words, wherein lies its prodigious ability to lie.”
“We are like droplets of water in an ocean of consciousness; individual to an extent, but those droplets together make up the ocean -- without the droplets there is no ocean. It is the same with this infinite energy mind we call creation/god. We are not part of that infinity -- we are that infinity if we open ourselves up to reconnect with it. Wherever you stand in infinity, you are at the center of infinity. So everything that exists is everything that exists. I am everything that exists; and so are you -- the more you realize that, the more you open up to the full infinity of who you are.”
“We are like dwarfs [the moderns] sitting on the shoulders of giants [the ancients]. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach farther than theirs. It is not because our sight is sharper nor our height greater than theirs; it is that we are carried and elevated by the high stature of the giants.”
“We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants. We see more things than the ancients and things more distant, but it is due neither to the sharpness of our sight nor the greatness of out stature. It is simply because they have lent us their own.”
“We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.”
“We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours.”
“We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were from death to renewed life." -Peter of Blois (d. 1212).”
Source: The European Reformations
“We are like flowers always reaching up towards some shred of light. I find this wondrous, nearly magical, certainly brave.”
“We are like fruitflies, measuring everything in terms of our own lifespan. But since our lifespans are so short, our perspective is entirely wrong.
God, who inhabits eternity, sees things differently. He knows that our lives are just a mist. We should trust Him. It was not that long ago that Jesus came and it will not be that long before He returns.”
“We are like Hansel and Gretel, leaving bread crumbs of our personal information everywhere we travel through the digital woods.”
“We are like highly trained athletes, who never run a race.”
“We are like horses that must be broken; basically that one should submit to a pastor even if he is wrong.”
“We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.”
Source: Formative Writings (Routledge Revivals)
“We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again”
Source: If I Stay
“We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.”
“We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.”
Source: Closing of the American Mind
“We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.”
Source: Closing of the American Mind
“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”
“We are like lutes once held by God. Being away from his warm body fully explains this constant yearning.”
“We are like magnets - like attract like. You become AND attract what you think.”
“We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.”
“We are like oil and vinegar most of the time. But when you shake us up real good, the combination is heavenly.~ Anna Segee, The Stranger in Her Bed”
“We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual. Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house.”
Source: The Moon and Sixpence
“We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.”
“We are like people who greet each other from inside the trains when two trains pass side by side; and the trains pass by, and then those people never see you again, nor you those people! Do you want to watch a ghost movie, here is a ghost movie for you, both you and they only saw ghosts!”
“We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.”
“We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.”
“We are like puzzle pieces who are perfectly suited to make a giant picture together, but we are assembling ourselves in the dark.”
Source: The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness