Langdon Brown Gilkey famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were transformed into ravishing music.
-- Langdon Brown Gilkey

#Men #Poetry #Unhappy
Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence, indifference at best or outright antipathy at worst.
-- Langdon Brown Gilkey

#Church #Indifference #Rebellion
Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare.
-- Langdon Brown Gilkey

#Art #Culture #Roles
Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.
-- Langdon Brown Gilkey

#Art #Reality #Opaque
The First Amendment is important not only to guarantee the rights of alternative religions and of nonreligious persons in society; it is also important in setting the only possible legal and social condition for the creative health of serious religion itself.
-- Langdon Brown Gilkey

#Rights #Creative #Religion

Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.
God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.
Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
Reality, the oppressor's tongue.
Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
If you have no goals you will be bored: you will be unhappy because you are empty.
If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.

Langdon Brown Gilkey famous quotes

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