"I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their Temple and could gladly sacrifice my life for one great moment in history. And at the same time I always felt so helpless and incapable of expressing these ardent passions even by a word or a poem."

-- Sigmund Freud

#Passion Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Temples Quotes

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
“I'm going to make a prediction - it could go either way.”
“I am sure the euro will oblige us to introduce a new set of economic policy instruments. It is politically impossible to propose that now. But some day there will be a crisis and new instruments will be created.”
“There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.”
“The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.”
“A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.”
“But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully of the quality of the music, but only really hear a phrase now and again. So they have no notion at all of the mighty symphony which fills the universe, to which our lives are destined to make their tiny contribution, and which is the self-expression of the Eternal God.”

Source : Evelyn Underhill, Christopher L. Webber (2006). “Advent with Evelyn Underhill”, p.17, Church Publishing, Inc.
“Our whole philosophy is one of transparency.”

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