Quotes
Authors
Joseph Sittler
"I have never been able to entertain a God-idea which was not integrally related to the fact of chipmunks, squirrels, hippopotamuses, galaxies, and light years." --
Source : Joseph Sittler, Steven Bouma-Prediger, Peter W. Bakken (2000). “Evocations of Grace: The Writings of Joseph Sittler on Ecology, Theology, and Ethics”, p.77, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Joseph Sittler
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“...the question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether we shall use a bad and incongruous, or a consistent and regular notation.”
“While frenetic activity, in the end suiting journos; running at the behest of little press secretaries does not pay off”
“Ah well, I suppose it has come to this… Such is life!”
Source : Ned Kelly's last words before he was hanged in the Melbourne Jail, November 11, 1880.
“I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never.”
“Never indulge in people who follow a negative path because they will take you with them on the road of ruin. Show them the way to positivism even if there's a risk of losing their friendship.”
Source : "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2002.
“Friends take up time, and I didn't have time.”
“The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.”
“I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.”