Verses Quotes - Page 27

• You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say "God is love" they will claim that you are taking things out of context!

  Dan Barker

  Bible, Biblical, Tyrants

  Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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• For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Air, Poetry

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.187, Penguin

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• According to energy medicine, we are all living history books. Our bodies contain our histories- every chapter, line and verse of every event and relationship in our lives. As our lives unfold, our biological health becomes a living, breathing biographical statement that conveys our strengths, weaknesses, hopes and fears.

  Caroline Myss

  Book, Breathing, Medicine

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.40, Harmony

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• We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.

  Anne Carson

  Thinking, Youth, Affair

  Anne Carson (2015). “Plainwater: Essays and Poetry”, p.16, Vintage

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• I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Music, Art, Mean

  Letter to Leopold Mozart, 8 Nov. 1777

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• There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that tell us we must be committed to protecting the poor and the oppressed... There is no concern of Scripture that is addressed so often and so powerfully as reaching out to the poor.

  Tony Campolo

  Scripture, Poor, Reaching

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• Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.

  Dave Beard

  Men, Poetry, Mind

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• Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Morning, Flower, Animal

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.112, W. W. Norton & Company

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• God chose to introduce Himself to us in the first verse of Genesis as a Creator. And yet so few Christians really understand the power of creativity to influence the culture.

  Phil Cooke

  Christian, Creativity, Culture

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• Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

  Alfred de Musset

  Memorable, Two, Poetry

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• Isn't it interesting that in Acts 11, at the end of verse 26, it says, "The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch." What I find interesting is the simple thought that the Christians didn't name themselves. But rather, they were called (or named) "Christians" by those watching their lives. I wonder if it would be the same today. Could someone look at your life or look at my life and name me a Christian? A humbling thought for sure.

  Chris Tomlin

  Christian, Simple, Names

  FaceBook post by Chris Tomlin from Aug 02, 2016

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• I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

  Anna Quindlen

  Life, Beach, Ocean

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• Stop listening for a voice and start looking for a verse. He's already spoken.

  Rick Warren

  Voice, Listening

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Oct 09, 2012

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• When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Disappointment, Joy, Doubt

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• In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

  Freeman Dyson

  Writing, Artist, Generations

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• There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.

  Mitch Albom

  Country, Confusion, Chocolate

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• The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Powerful, Dead Poets Society

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Leaves of Grass”, p.261, Xist Publishing

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• There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Mediocrity, Speech, Painting

  "Of Books". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

  Victor Hugo

  Criticism, Critics

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• There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.

  Augustus William Hare

  Flower, Garden, Smell

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.199

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• Toxic thoughts leave no room for truth to flourish. And in the absence of truth, lies reign. Spend some time soaking in your favorite verses from Scripture tonight. The more we read God's truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we'll spend contemplating untruths and toxic thoughts.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Lying, Mind, Toxic

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Feb 19, 2016

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