Passages Quotes

“What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.”

“When you are bored of the plains, the secret passages to the mountains suddenly appear out of nowhere before you!”

“In Proverbs, a wisdom book of the Hebrew Scriptures, a cat would find a few “wisdom” passages as noxious as the Garden of Eden passages. Again the symbology of fruit being eaten”

“Changing your mind can move you into another dimension. Passages materialize exposing a hidden world that was there all along.”

“Reflections...passages in time..sometimes, the only things that make sense..the only peace I find..is found somewhere, unwritten..in between the lines.”

“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on the world as a mass of truth, and as the word of God; they have disputed and wrangled, and have anathematized each other about the supposable meaning of particular parts and passages therein; one has said and insisted that such a passage meant such a thing, another that it meant directly the contrary, and a third, that it meant neither one nor the other, but something different from both; and this they have called understanding the Bible.It has happened, that all the answers that I have seen to the former part of 'The Age of Reason' have been written by priests: and these pious men, like their predecessors, contend and wrangle, and understand the Bible; each understands it differently, but each understands it best; and they have agreed in nothing but in telling their readers that Thomas Paine understands it not.”

“In her past were sweet passages, in her future rosy hopes.”

“The totally alive, totally conscious, and totally aware Universe takes care of itself completely. It is totally self-reliant and totally self- sufficient. it is perfect.”

“A book did not qualify as literature unless it had polysyllabic words and incomprehensible passages.”

“I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.”