Quotes
Authors
Alma P Burton
"Even the Savior of the world, the Only Begotten Son of God, was obliged to come to earth and to take upon himself an earthly tabernacle. He experienced joy and sorrow, happiness and grief, lasting satisfaction and frequent disappointments. As Paul has written, "Though he were a Son yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him."" --
Source : Alma P. Burton, Clea M. Burton (1966). “For They Shall Be Comforted”, p.30, Cedar Fort
Alma P Burton
#Disappointment Quotes
#Grief Quotes
#Son Quotes
“You see my tears, in the rain underneath it all, we're just the same.”
“If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.”
“Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate.”
“All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.”
“I had a lot of nerves for a long time about career-oriented things, and I've slowly sort of let myself relax into it a bit.”
“Your friends are at the house.' I sit up, straight. 'Who'? 'I don't know. Weird people. The Sullivan girl, whose father got the Gosford police to pick you up.' 'Siobhan?' 'And another one who's making cups of tea for everyone, and keeping the boy who's telling Luca fart jokes away from the girl who says he's "the last bastion of patriarchal poor taste".' 'Justine, Thomas and Tara.' And the drug fiend, Jimmy, is keeping Mia calm and the Trombal boy's rung about ten times. I don't like his manner on the phone.' 'You won't like any guy's manner on the phone.”
“Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.”
“What if the book (of Genesis) is describing a dawning awareness of the world? The anthropologist Edmund Leach has argued that the 'bit' or binary digit is the basic unit of pre-logical communication. Genesis is a sprouting of 'bits', ie elementary binary distinctions.”
Source : Charles Hampden-Turner (1982). “Maps of the Mind”, Macmillan Publishing Company
