Quotes about Isolated

I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.

But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth.

When I was a teenager in Georgia I always felt like the odd one. I never felt like I fit in.

Shall we continue to raise our eyes to heaven? is the luminous point which we distinguish there one of those which vanish? The ideal is frightful to behold, thus lost in the depths, small, isolated, imperceptible, brilliant, but surrounded by those great, black menaces, monstrously heaped around it; yet no more in danger than a star in the maw of the clouds.

The best progressive ideas are those that include a strong enough dose of provocation to make its supporters feel proud of being original, but at the same time attract so many adherents that the risk of being an isolated exception is immediately averted by the noisy approval of the triumphant crowd.

The confession of the authority of the Word of God can never be isolated from the saving content of the Word of God.

Meditation is the primary way in which we guard against the fragmentation of our Scripture reading into isolated oracles. Meditation enters into the coherent universe of God's revelation. Meditation is the prayerful employ of imagination in order to become friends with the text. It must not be confused with fancy or fantasy.

My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.

I've been such a private person.

I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.