5,159 Quotes About Mean

Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better...

We must beware of the Past, mustn't we? I mean that any fixing of the mind on old evils beyond what is absolutely necessary for repenting our own sins and forgiving those of others is certainly useless and usually bad for us. Notice in Dante that the lost souls are entirely concerned with their past! Not so the saved.

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.

Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.

Unrelated doesn't necessarily mean unrelated. Allow ideas to dwell with one another.

Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through the sense of sight. When you see without feeling, you are still partly blind; you lack the inner light that brings awareness. Awareness requires the interplay of every faculty, the use of your entire being as an eye.