Louis Modra > Louis's Quotes

“You see how it is, my dear friends. There's no pleasing everyone. It's hopeless to even try, and the more you play the peacemaker, the less peaceful things become.”
― Sholem Aleichem, Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

“Mere prattle without practice”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
― Mason Cooley

“Faith moves mountains but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.”
― Mason Cooley

“A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.”
― Mason Cooley

“Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.”
― Mason Cooley

“If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.”
― Mason Cooley

“Cure for an obsession: get another one.”
― Mason Cooley

“Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully”
― Mason Cooley

“Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.”
― Mason Cooley

“Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.”
― Mason Cooley

“Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions.”
― Mason Cooley

“Don't sacrifice yourself for me. I will not be grateful.”
― Mason Cooley

“Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.”
― Mason Cooley

“Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.”
― Mason Cooley

“After desolation, grief brings back our humanity”
― Mason Cooley

“ Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.”
― Mason Cooley

“Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.”
― Mason Cooley

“Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.”
― mason cooley

“But to be brief. The clearness of the Scripture is twofold; even as the
obscurity is twofold also. The one is external, placed in the ministry of
the word; the other internal, placed in the understanding of the heart. If
you speak of the internal clearness, no man sees one iota in the
Scriptures, but he that hath the Spirit of God. All have a darkened heart;
so that, even if they know how to speak of, and set forth, all things in
the Scripture, yet, they cannot feel them nor know them: nor do they
believe that they are the creatures of God, nor any thing else: according
to that of Psalm xiv, 1. "The fool hath said in his heart, God is nothing."
For the Spirit is required to understand the whole of the Scripture and
every part of it. If you speak of the external clearness, nothing whatever
is left obscure or ambiguous; but all things that are in the Scriptures, are
by the Word brought forth into the clearest light, and proclaimed to the
whole world.”
― Martin Luther, The Bondage of the Will

“And what is it that preachers do, to this very day? Do they interpret and expound the Scriptures? Yet if the Scripture they expound is uncertain, who can assure us that heir exposition is certain? Another new exposition? And who will expound the exposition? At this rate we will go on forever. In short, if Scripture is obscure or ambiguous, what part is there in God's giving it to us?”
― Martin Luther, The Bondage of the Will

“That is what Reason can neither grasp nor endure, and what has offended all these men of outstanding talent who have been so received for so many centuries. Here they demand that God should act according to human justice, and do what seems right to them or else cease to be God.”
― Martin Luther, The Bondage of the Will