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“Simpler manners, purer lives; more self-denial; more earnest sympathy with the classes that lie below us, nothing short of that can lay the foundations of the Christianity which is to be hereafter, deep and broad.”

Self Lying Christianity Class Foundation Lays Simplicity Manners Denial Broads Earnest Hereafter Self-denial

Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“The truly awesome intellectuals in our history have not merely made discoveries; they have woven variegated, but firm, tapestries of comprehensive coverage. The tapestries have various fates: Most burn or unravel in the footsteps of time and the fires of later discovery. But their glory lies in their integrity as unified structures of great complexity and broad implication.”

Source: Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history

“One of the many, many things I hate about war is how it trivializes the personal. The big themes, the broad sweep, the emergency measures, the national identity, all the things that a particular kind of man with a particular kind of power urge adores, these are the things that become important. War gives the lie to the personal, drowns it in meetings, alarms, sacrifices. The personal is only allowed to return as death.”

Men Giving Kind Important War Bigs Lying Hate Sacrifice Identity Particular He Man Return I Hate Meetings Theme Urges Broads Adore Emergencies Alarms National Identity Things I Hate

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Die breite Masse einesVolkes?einer groÞen Lu« ge leichter zum Opfer f a« llt als einer kleinen. The broad mass of a nation?will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.”

Bigs Lying Dies Fall Nations Mass Victim Als Broads

Author:Adolf Hitler

“There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The other is a system of speculations about the unseen and the unknowable, which the human mind has no power to grasp or explain, and these speculations vary with every sect, age, and type of civilization. No one knows any more of what lies beyond our sphere of action than thou and I, and we know nothing.”

“Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!”

Soul Body Earth Lying Heaven Breaths Broads Alas Blinded

Book:Sartor Resartus

Source: Sartor Resartus

“artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the crop.”

Long Art Lying Artist Behinds Fields Criticism Critics Broads Crops

Book:Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

Source: Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

“Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.”

Thinking World Kind Art Whole Hands Bigs Lying Seeing Minutes Whole World Sand Broads Grain Strokes Examination Mundane Big Picture Grains Of Sand

Author:Peter Hammill