Glenn B Miller > Glenn's Quotes

“But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round--apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that--as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“If I flew for you, you would still be standing.”
― Heather Nova

“Over the years, they’d become accomplished at avoiding unpleasant topics. Their burdened demeanors spoke volumes through the silence.”
― Glenn B Miller, The Barrier: Parental concern never ends

“Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”
― Maya Angelou

“People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.”
― Bob Dylan

“One of the things Christians are disagreed about is the importance of their disagreements.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity; The Screwtape Letters, Miracles; The Great Divorce; The Problem of Pain; A Grief Observed; The Abolition of Man; The Four Loves; Reflect...

“Having reckless fun before graduating to the real world was what they all desperately sought.”
― Ronel Janse van Vuuren, The Fae Realm

“God is not reducible to human power agendas”
― Walter Brueggemann, Truth Speaks to Power: The Countercultural Nature of Scripture

“it places in question any agenda that protects the privilege of some at the expense of others.”
― Walter Brueggemann, Truth Speaks to Power: The Countercultural Nature of Scripture

“God’s truth stands on the side of the weak, the poor, and the excluded.”
― Walter Brueggemann, Truth Speaks to Power: The Countercultural Nature of Scripture

“peasant truth is closely linked to lived reality and mostly kept hidden from the practitioners of official truth.”
― Walter Brueggemann, Truth Speaks to Power: The Countercultural Nature of Scripture

“The only really absolute mysteries in Christianity are the self-communication of God in the depths of existence—which we call grace, and in history—which we call Christ. —Fr. Karl Rahner, Jesuit priest and theologian, 1904–1984 I do not worship matter.”
― Richard Rohr, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe

“Maria claimed he was born on a January midnight in 1873 as a comet ripped across the sky. “A shooting star of such magnitude had always been taken by the God-fearing muzhiks as an omen of some momentous event,”
― Joseph T. Fuhrmann, Rasputin: The Untold Story

“I’ve been guided by the belief that science and religion are God-given partners. Each is dedicated to a certain kind of truth, each can inform the other, and both are essential to a balanced understanding of our spiritually physical (or physically spiritual) universe.”
― Frances Worthington, Abraham: One God, Three Wives, Five Religions