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“The law showeth unto us our sins, and maketh known unto us our miserable estate and wretchedness, and how that there is nothing good in us, and that we are far off from all manner of righteousness, and so driveth us of necessity to seek righteousness in Christ.”
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“You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real.”
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“I love listening to classical music.”
Source : "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. January 8, 2010.
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“The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness and fulfillment are possible from others. We have lost our hope in our fellow humans.”
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“It was hard to follow my dreams... I didn't let anything stop me.”
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“Doing good doesn't always make you feel good. I don't care what they tell you in church.”
Source : Ann Rinaldi (2002). “Amelia's War”, p.55, Scholastic Inc.
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“I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out.”
Source : "I can't completely let go of drugs - and I don't want to" by Mat Snow, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2006.
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“I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i. e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.”
Source : "The Essence of Christianity". Book by Ludwig Feuerbach (1841), Preface to Second Edition, 1843.