30 Quotes About Literal

The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

The literal sense of the author was "creation is the orderly act of a loving Creator God." What the modern reader often hears, however, is "The universe was made in six 24-hour days." This is as wrong-headed as taking me to mean I actually stood in line a million years or that my cardiac tissue has been torn in half or that Christ had delusions of being a grape plant.-- Making Senses of Scripture

Если индивидуальность критически относится к произведению, то и произведение критически относится к индивидуальности

..et tamen nihil est sciens vel quiescens, nisi actualiter sit sciens vel quiescens.

The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming...Dead silence.Literally dead.

Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for belief. There exists no guide for such cherry-picking, and zero religious sanction for it.

Нелюбезно провожать даму и всю дорогу говорить с нею только о своей честности! Может быть, это и честно, но, по меньшей мере, скучно.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."[The Autumnal]

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are it's victim and we have no control over it.