Quotes related to 1 Corinthians 2:9
I must tell you a great truth, Much-Afraid, which only the few understand. All the fairest beauties in the human soul, its greatest victories, and its most splendid achievements are always those which no one else knows anything about, or can only dimly guess at. Every inner response of the human heart to Love and every conquest over self-love is a new flower on the tree of Love.
— Hannah Hurnard
I am so glad TV had not been invented then—it meant I had to, and most certainly did, exercise and develop my powers of imagination.
— Jane Goodall
The Tamil audience is more receptive to unusual endings.
— Gautham Menon
Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind of kept playing around with.
— Walt Disney
There is an unknown land full of strange flowers and subtle perfumes, a land of which it is joy of all joys to dream, a land where all things are perfect and poisonous.
— Oscar Wilde
As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there. But he suddenly started up, and closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.
— Oscar Wilde
In accord with his original intent, the heavenly Father has in fact prepared an individualized kingdom for every person, from the outset of creation. That
— Dallas Willard
Poetry reaches to the realm beyond the world of sight and sound to reveal what our senses long to see and hear. It is the language not so much of the sublime, but of the truly real.
— Dan Allender
But the earth speaks to us of Heaven, or why would we want to go there? If we knew nothing of Hell, how would we delight in Heaven should we get there?
— Wendell Berry
Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
— William Golding
I got vision; the rest of the world is wearing bifocals.
— William Goldman
Our normal waking consciousness . . . is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the flimsiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus and at a touch they are all there in all their completeness . . . No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded.
— William James