"Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself."

-- Loren Eiseley

#Fire Quotes #Cost Quotes #Hunger Quotes

“I think we're fascinated by gangsters and that whole lifestyle and crossing the line. We get sort of stuck in our normal lives, if you will, and you want to be bigger than life and I think people somehow live through these sorts of characters.”
“I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym.”
“And if the City falls and one survives he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile he shall be the City”
“Faith is seated in the understanding as well as in the will. It has an eye to see Christ as well as a wing to fly to Christ.”
“There will be no Christian but what will have a Gethsemane, but every praying Christian will find that there is no Gethsemane without its angel!”
“Mohammed knew that most people are terribly cowardly and stupid. That is why he promised two beautiful women to every courageous warrior who dies in battle. This is the kind of language a soldier understands. When he believes that he will be welcomed in this manner in the afterlife, he will be willing to give his life, he will be enthusiastic about going to battle and not fear death. You may call this primitive and you may laugh about it, but it is based on deeper wisdom. A religion must speak a man's language.”
“School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity.”
“I believe that Jesus was both priest and poet. Imagine those powerful parables! My experience as a priest tells me it's not possible to reach the hearts of the congregants without a bit of poetry and storytelling.”

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