"Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm."

-- Graham Greene

#Dumb Quotes #Bells Quotes #Literature Quotes

“In early historical civilization, lunar symbols wove together three major metaphorical concepts. The first is the idea of fertility. The moon controls the tides of both water and blood â€“ the sacred fluids of the early religions. The second is the concept of periodic rebirth, symbolized by the moonâ€™s monthly waning and renewal. The third is the notion of continually repeating cycles of change.”

Source : Layne Redmond (1997). “When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm”
“A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a time throughout our land when it was common for stories to be told and retold, a most valuable exercise, for the story retold is the story reexamined over and over again at different levels of intellectual and emotional growth.”

Source : Wes Jackson (2015). “Becoming Native to This Place”, p.89, Counterpoint
“Yet, after all, faith is not our righteousness. It is accounted to us in order to righteousness (Rom 4:5, GREEK), but not as righteousness; for in that case it would be a work like any other doing of man, and as such would be incompatible with the righteousness of the Son of God; the righteousness which is by faith. Faith connects us with the righteousness, and is therefore totally distinct from it. To confound the one with the other is to subvert the whole gospel of the grace of God. Our act of faith must ever be a separate thing from that which we believe.”
“Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.”
“Laughter may instruct but it may also conceal, defending the joker against anger and retaliation: a game is only a game.”
“Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.”
“Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes.”
“The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.”

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