Floyd E. Bloom famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.

  • Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

  • But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

  • Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.

  • The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

  • Your belief system saturates the space around you.

  • The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.

  • While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

  • Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.

  • When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

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