"The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross."

-- D. A. Carson

#Arrogance Quotes #Crosses Quotes #Humans Quotes

“All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to no one but his own sensibilities for what he painted and how he painted it.”
“I'm an old-fashioned guy.”
“I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a young boy who was good at his studies.”
“I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.”
“The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show.”
“Several days in a row we sighted groups of metallic, saucer-shaped vehicles at great altitudes over the base Germany, 1951 and we tried to get close to them, but they were able to change direction faster than our fighters. I do believe UFOs exist and that the truly unexplained ones are from some other technically advanced civilization.”
“I should have written books instead of reading them.”
“In Kafka we have the modern mind, seemingly self-sufficient, intelligent, skeptical, ironical, splendidly trained for the great game of pretending that the world it comprehends in sterilized sobriety is the only and ultimate real one â€“ yet a mind living in sin with the soul of Abraham. Thus he knows Two things at once, and both with equal assurance: that there is no God, and that there must be God.”

Source : Erich Heller (1975). “Franz Kafka”, Viking Pr

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