“One of the things I love about our source text as Christians, the Bible is that it teaches us not to avoid conflict. And it teaches us that before the fall of man, in Paradise, there was conflict. God wants conflict to be a part of your life.” MenWantChristianFallTeachSourceConflictParadiseThings I LoveFall Of Man Author:Donald Miller
“Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace. You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.” BookSoulEnemyTeachGreaterGraceTreeWindMastersSourceStonesMercyWoodsBurningStreamsGatesDewIngratitude Author:Bernard of Clairvaux
“Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker's sense of satisfaction with his small existence-who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of "equal" rights.” TodayHatePleasureExistenceTeachRightsSourceEqualI HateClaimsInstinctWorkersSatisfactionRevengeSocialistEqual RightsApostlesEnvious Book:The Portable Nietzsche Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of a Watteau drawing or an inaccurate transcription of a fourteenth-century epigraph is a sin against the spirit and in the afternoon or evening transmits to the agents of Soviet intelligence classified, perhaps vital information given to him in sworn trust by his countrymen and intimate colleagues. What are the sources of such scission? How does the spirit mask itself?” ThinkingMenDoeMomentsSpiritGivenSinTeachMorningCenturyInformationStudentsSourceDrawingAgentsEveningIntimateMaskAfternoonSovietColleaguesTransmitCountrymenAttributionEpigraphsTranscription Book:George Steiner: A Reader Source: George Steiner: A Reader
“A theologian should be thoroughly in possession of the basis and source of faith--that is to say, the Holy Scriptures. Armed with this knowledge it was that I confounded and silenced all my adversaries; for they seek not to fathom and understand the Scriptures; they run them over negligently and drowsily; they speak, they write, they teach, according to the suggestion of their heedless imaginations.” ShouldWritingRunningSpeakImaginationTeachSourceHolyBasesPossessionScriptureSuggestionsTheologianAdversariesFathomHoly Scriptures Book:Martin Luther's Table Talk Source: Martin Luther's Table Talk
“Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.” ShouldLightEyePainEvilPleasureTeachBreakSourceDawnUnexpectedGood And EvilBowsGloomResignationPain And PleasureConfiding Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We are beset by problems and if we look for their source, we find they arise because of our selfishness, because we tend to pursue our own interests at the expense of others. Our various religious traditions exist to help us reduce these problems. They all teach ways to overcome suffering through cultivating love and compassion, tolerance, patience and contentment.” IfsWayLooksHelpingProblemSufferingInterestReligiousCompassionTeachSourceTraditionOvercomingVariousToleranceArisePursueSelfishnessContentmentExpensesLove And CompassionCultivatingReligious Traditions Author:Dalai Lama
“To be original you must listen to the voice of your heart rather than the clamor of the world - and have the courage to teach publicly what you have learned. The source of all genius is sincerity; men would be wiser if they were more moral.” IfsMenWorldHeartWould BeVoiceMoralTeachSourceGeniusOriginalsSincerityWiserClamor Author:Ludwig Borne
“The biggest questions that always have perplexed me are "Where do I come from?" and "Where am I going?" The "Where do I come from?" question, which I think I largely am answering now, is about what quantum physics teaches us. If you try to find your source, you are not going to find it in a tiny little particle that began with your parents commingling.” IfsThinkingTryingLittlesParentTeachSourcePhysicsTinyQuantumParticlesQuantum PhysicsPerplexed Author:Wayne Dyer
“When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which the students and I try to expand the terminology we use to talk about poetry as well as expand our notion of what makes a poem - we read source texts on architecture, dance, photography, film and the graphic novel.” TryingWellsUseFilmClassTeachNovelStudentsSourcePhotographyNotionArchitectureGraduatesTopicsGraphicGraphic NovelsTerminologySeminars Author:Matthea Harvey
“I may be a descendant of Seth. I say to myself, What does [the story of Cain and Abel] teach me? So I go back to all the interpretations in the Talmud, which to me are a source of pleasure and joy. Then I say, maybe this story is not for then; maybe it's for now! It's possible for brothers to kill one another in civil wars. But most important, whoever kills, kills his brother. That's a moral conclusion that may not be there; but that must be my conclusion. Otherwise, why read it? Whoever kills, kills his brother.” MayDoeImportantWarStoriesJoyPleasureMoralTeachBrotherSourceConclusionCivil WarInterpretationDescendantsCainAbelCain And Abel Author:Elie Wiesel