"Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most obscure book in the world. He must be a great fool who thinks he understands the plainest chapter of it."

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Source : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.23, Lulu Press, Inc

Coventry Patmore

#Book Quotes #Reality Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I don't think restaurants should refuse to serve minority people. They are quite tasty when prepared correctly.”
“Please leave the window open.”
“... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.”
“To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.”

Source : Charles Williams (2016). “The Image of the City and Other Essays”, p.141, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“All forms of landscape are autobiographical,”

Source : Charles Wright (2014). “Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems”, p.158, Macmillan
“What we should be doing as musicians is trying to bring people together.”
“Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the new system where they are divorced from personal ownership of the land and obligated to work on the conditions which the state may demand from them... This famine may fairly be called political because it was not the result of any overwhelming natural catastrophe or such complete exhaustions of the country's resources in foreign and civil wars...”
“By His trials, God means to purify us, to take away all our self-confidence, and our trust in each other, and bring us into implicit, humble trust in Himself.”

Source : Horace Bushnell (1858). “Sermons for the new life”, p.432

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