Quotes related to Psalm 119:105
A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.
— William Wordsworth
There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.
— William Hazlitt
There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.
— John Updike
See your road through.
— JRR Tolkien
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Books are a better investment in our future than bullets. Books, not bullets, will pave the path towards peace and prosperity.
— Malala Yousafzai
God's peace and perspective are available to you through His Word.
— Elizabeth George
A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith.
— Leland Ryken
There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.
— Paul Ricoeur
In my reading of philosophy, I saw that there were innumerable problems that nobody was giving answers for the Bible, it struck me, dealt with man's problems in a sweeping, all-encompassing thrust.
— Francis Schaeffer
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
— Aristotle
But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.
— AA Milne