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WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/taylor-barbara-brown/75543/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Barbara Brown Taylor</b></a></p><blockquote>I cannot say for sure when my reliable ideas about God began to slip away, but the big chest I used to keep them in is smaller than a shoebox now. Most of the time, I feel so ashamed about this that I do not own up to it unless someone else mentions it first. Then we find a quiet place where we can talk about what it is like to feel more and more devoted to a relationship that we are less and less able to say anything about.</blockquote><p><b>Barbara Brown Taylor</b> (b. 1951) American minister, academic, author<br><i>Learning to Walk in the Dark</i>, ch. 7 (2014)</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/taylor-barbara-brown/75543/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/taylor-barbara-brown…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=belief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>belief</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=certainty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>certainty</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=faith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>faith</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=God" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>God</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=ineffability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ineffability</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=relationship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>relationship</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=uncertainty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uncertainty</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations has moved!<p>A quotation from Dante Alighieri:</p><p>«<br />Within that heav’n which most receives His light<br />Was I, and saw such things as man nor knows<br />Nor skills to tell, returning from that height;<br />For when our intellect is drawing close<br />To its desire, its paths are so profound<br />That memory cannot follow where it goes.<br />Yet now, of that blest realm, what…<br />»</p><p>Full quote, sourcing, notes: <br /><a href="https://wist.info/dante-alighieri-poet/69278/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wist.info/dante-alighieri-poet</span><span class="invisible">/69278/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/comprehension" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>comprehension</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/God" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>God</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ineffability" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ineffability</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/heaven" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>heaven</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/tale" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tale</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/memory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>memory</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/experience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>experience</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations has moved!<p>A quotation from Joubert, Joseph:</p><p>«<br />God made life to be lived (the world to be inhabited) and not to be known.<br />»</p><p>Full quote, sourcing, notes: <br /><a href="https://wist.info/joubert-joseph/21322/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wist.info/joubert-joseph/21322</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/enlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>enlightenment</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/God" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>God</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ineffability" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ineffability</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>life</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/living" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>living</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/meaningoflife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>meaningoflife</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mystery</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/understand" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>understand</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations has moved!<p>A quotation from Pratchett, Terry:</p><p>«<br />“But the Great Plan can only be a tiny part of the overall ineffability,” said Crowley. “You can’t be certain that what’s happening right now isn’t exactly right, from an ineffable point of view.”<br />“It izz written!” bellowed Beelzebub.<br />“But it might be written differently somewhere else,” said Crowley. “Where you can…<br />»</p><p>Full quote, sourcing, notes: <br /><a href="https://wist.info/pratchett-terry/3213/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wist.info/pratchett-terry/3213</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ineffability" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ineffability</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/divineplan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>divineplan</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/God" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>God</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mystery</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/scripture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>scripture</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations has moved!<p>A quotation from Pratchett, Terry:</p><p>«<br />If you take the long view, the universe is just something small and round, like those water-filled balls which produce a miniature snowstorm when you shake them.*</p><p>* Although, unless the ineffable plan is a lot more ineffable than it’s given credit for, it does not have a giant plastic snowman at the bottom.<br />»</p><p>Full quote, sourcing, notes: <br /><a href="https://wist.info/pratchett-terry/3211/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wist.info/pratchett-terry/3211</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/divineplan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>divineplan</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ineffability" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ineffability</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mystery</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/universe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>universe</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations has moved!<p>A quotation from Menen, Aubrey:</p><p>«<br />There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.<br />»</p><p>Full quote, sourcing, notes: <br /><a href="https://wist.info/menen-aubrey/42325/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wist.info/menen-aubrey/42325/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/comprehension" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>comprehension</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/folly" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>folly</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/God" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>God</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/humancondition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>humancondition</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/humannature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>humannature</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>humor</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ineffability" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ineffability</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/laughter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>laughter</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>meme</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/reality" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>reality</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations has moved!<p>A quotation from <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Pratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pratchett</span></a>, Terry:</p><p>«««««<br />“From what I remember,” replied Crowley, thoughtfully, “– and we were never actually on what you might call speaking terms — He wasn’t exactly one for a straight answer. In fact, in fact, he’d never answer at all. He’d just smile, as if He knew something that you didn’t.”<br />“And of course that’s true,&quot; said the angel. &quot;Other…<br />»»»»»</p><p>Full quote, sourcing, notes: <br /><a href="https://wist.info/pratchett-terry/3201/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wist.info/pratchett-terry/3201</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/answer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>answer</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/God" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>God</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ineffability" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ineffability</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/omniscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>omniscience</span></a></p>