Quotes about Harmless
we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life; it will be quite safe — harmless, in fact — with church life carefully separated off from everything else in the world, whether politics, art, sex, economics, or whatever.
- NT Wright
we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life; it will be quite safe - harmless, in fact - with church life carefully separated off from everything else in the world, whether politics, art, sex, economics, or whatever.
- NT Wright
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
- John Donne
Be as wise as a fox. Be as harmless as a dove.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.
- Henry Ward Beecher
In the New Testament, the concept of myth is not simply a harmless feature of a primitive world-view, requiring only to be reinterpreted for modern man ... Myth is that which "diminishes the truth of salvation."
- GC Berkouwer
What began as an apparently harmless pastime has ended up as a frightening, overpowering addiction or obsession.
- Billy Graham
Contain yourselves from the ungoverned wildness of pride, the sluggish voluptuousness of luxury, and the false name of knowledge: that so the wild beasts may be tamed, the cattle broken to the yoke, the serpents, harmless.
- St. Augustine
No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
- St. John Chrysostom
One of these days lightning is going to fill the sky from the rising of the sun to its setting, and there is going to appear in the clouds one like a son of man with his mighty angels in flaming fire. And we will see him clearly. And whether from terror or sheer excitement, we will tremble and we will wonder how, how we ever lived so long with such a domesticated, harmless Christ.
- John Piper
Then I lifted up my hands—stood just so a moment—then I said, with the most awful solemnity: "Let the enchantment dissolve and pass harmless away!
- Mark Twain
About three-fourths of the whole business was for effect and therefore harmless, ended at the door of the cafe, soon enough for the five-o'clock train back to Yale or Princeton; about one-fourth continued on into the dimmer hours and gathered strange dust from strange places.
- F Scott Fitzgerald