E.S. Russell Quotes
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.
All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.
It may not always be easy, convenient or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
The Divine Voice is not always expressed in words. It is made known as a heart-consciousness.
The Divine Voice is not always expressed in words. It is made known as a heart-consciousmess
Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp.
Maybe if I could slip into Sylvia's mind, sort out the spices in her rack, alphabetize them and dust them off. Maybe then I'd understand how it's the little things that pull you under.
The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world.
Writing my own novels in the '90s...I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.
Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)
Iyther you dont know nothing or you know too much it dont seam like theres any thing in be twean.
He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it.
Use more caution the next time you make a reading selection. Books, you know, are a lot like people, and each and every one of us is ultimately judged by the company we keep
To the modern politician and planner, men are the flies of a summer, oblivious of their past, reckless of their future.
If you have to stretch that far to reach the justification you want, then perhaps you’re standing upon the wrong pedestal.
Our connections to the Oneness of the Universe/God are both physical/atomic matter and nonphysical spiritual/energy.
Chris is a little ashamed of having once fallen for him: it makes him sad how everything changes, how ruthless the heart can be.
We must live with our hearts in our hands - like Mary.We must hold the blood-red heart and no be disappointedwhen others look away.
Too often, our concept of pastors and church leaders reinforces rather than obliterates the sad state of family life in our current context.
Was there anything quite so painful, so fraught with the possibilities of hurt, as gift giving within a family?
Soon would come the night in which there was no more work – not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart.
The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.
Still, for all that, her life had lacked passion. The demons had never come for her.
On a subatomic level, it is not possible to determine where anything begins or ends, because there is no true separation of individual energy despite the illusions of the physical realities.
If something you desire is not happening, you are not emotionally or mentally ready for it yet. Make your mental adjustment in the now, and the reality will follow.
Timelessness is realizing that everything that has ever or will ever happen already exists simultaneously in another reality or dimension.
We can change reality just from assumptions accepted as true, regardless if they could be quantifiably accepted as true through the physical
Reality is constructed by our perception, and it does not actually exist without it.
No more crying. Tears only cause destructivefloods. When you are sad, you build a boat.
The root of impatience in discipline is really the same as that of overindulgence. In both instances, parents want to make up for lost time, to speed up a process that takes time.
I dropped the candies into the children's bags, thinking: You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.
Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.
We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.
I can be a woman on a mission. But I'll choose what mission that is. And that my friend is where youll see the results.
Son, in life you do not fight battles because you expect to win......you fight them merely because they need to be fought.-Snagglepuss
Yes, it hurts to fall— ache, tenderness—but each scar is a sign your system is working.
She pours sugar on her life and drinks the artist’s marrow in the bone of her glass and she lives.