Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?
Walker Percy
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YAMIN RASHEED To us, food is not an essential issue. There are more important issues, like loving your neighbor as...
MARLENE ROSENBERG Never propose to thy self such a God, as thou wert not bound to imitate: Thou mistakest God, if thou...
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PHILIP SCHULTZ Don’t trust any man who surrounds himself with beautiful women. Least of all a priest.
BRIAN MCCLELLAN Why, God? You made man in your own image. Why then do so many lack good sense? And why is that we ar...
RICHARD PUZ Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infer...
WILLA CATHER Oh man! Why make yourself so ugly with the dirty outfit of pride?
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only belie...
ISIDORE DUCASSE LAUTREAMONT Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only belie...
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JENNIFER HICKS I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.
WILLIE STARGELL God never made women to be objects of men, so why should they be?
A.J. CHILSON My challenge is to find a beautiful balance: to make women beautiful, to make a woman dream to wear ...
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KATSURA HOSHINO If God is such an almighty being, why did it take him 7 days to build earth?
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I come across too much material on "how to make a man want you", "how to make a man commit", "how to...
C. JOYBELL C. The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
JOHN BARRYMORE The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time
JOHN BARRYMORE So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty ...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Here is one with a gift for loving and a gift for hating, and when he hates, God help the man who ea...
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
MAYA ANGELOU I design to make women feel confident and beautiful.
TADASHI SHOJI If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
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A. W. TOZER That little man in black over there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ w...
SOJOURNER TRUTH I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real sci...
LALLA WARD We are a product of love, so why stop loving ourselves and others.
VISHWAS CHAVAN So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the bea...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE He was a very, very sincere, loving man who loved what he did.
FRAN SCHENKEL You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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CRAIG GROESCHEL How odd it is that we judge a woman by her clothes and the place she eats lunch and the subjects she...
MANAL AL-SHARIF Why are men so noisy during the liturgies while Christ's prayer was silent? The words of the Son of ...
ROBERT SARAH I thought I was over him! So why did my heart still rip? Why did I still feel this sorrow? I got thi...
SUSAN E. ISAACS God is same yesterday, today, tomorrow and for evermore. People can change what ever they want. Ther...
JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why w...
TUPAC SHAKUR It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you c...
KEANU REEVES Romantic love morphs into a loving and eternal relationship if we understand what is love; why passi...
BALROOP SINGH In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eag...
VIRGINIA WOOLF That little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men 'cause Christ...
SOJOURNER TRUTH The coming together of a man and woman was a holy thing, after all. God had chosen this way of reple...
NAOMI RAGEN I was a fool!" Percy roared, so loudly that Lupin nearly dropped his photograph. "I was an idiot, I ...
J.K. ROWLING Being human doesn't make us humans. Humanity is something else only a kind and loving heart can poss...
MUNIA KHAN I'm so sorry for loving you, I'm so sorry.... But it was such a wonderful dream, my love, such a won...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's l...
ROWAN WILLIAMS I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.
MALIN AKERMAN No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.
JAMES JOYCE WASN’T POLYGNY AN EXAMPLE OF WOMEN AS MEN’S PROPERTY? In no country at no period of time, were w...
WARREN FARRELL I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mi...
SARAH FERGUSON Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do ...
JOHN PIPER You need the living, loving heart of living, loving men and women to quicken other hearts, which can...
EDWARD EVERETT HALE The point I try to make with the kids is, well, scripture tells us that man looks on the outside, bu...
CATHY STURGILL Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.
KIESZA Man allowed by God to do good and evil.
That's why some of angels feel so jealous.
TOBA BETA Why did Seattle make such a dramatic move? All of the positive forces are expected to come together ...
HESSAM NADJI Percy and Frank stumbled backwards. ‘Um … is that thing tame?’ Frank said. The horse whinnie...
RICK RIORDAN Some women’s greatest achievement is sleeping with a man who is rich, famous, and/or wanted by man...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she migh...
WOODROW WYATT A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.
MAYA ANGELOU A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.
MAX LUCADO A woman's heart should be so close to God that a man should have to chase Him to find her.
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ELAYNE BOOSLER Every women is a gift when she becomes daughter.Every women is beautiful when she becomes a lover.Ev...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA And as she looked at the pool she saw the waters gather up into a column, rushing up foaming and sta...
ELLIOT MABEUSE There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, ...
BLAISE PASCAL Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured w...
FRANCESCA M. CANCIAN I love that feeling of, you know, we are women, we are so different, our imperfections are what make...
GISELE BUNDCHEN You never know when the timing is going to hit in a such a way that you're going to make a diffe...
BOB CORKER All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
MEISTER ECKHART So why are we practicing this, anyway?" Percy asked. "Do you guys spend a lot of time laying siege t...
RICK RIORDAN Men write Bibles. God doesn't. God writes in stars and worlds and seasons and Hudson Rivers and beau...
MARK SIEGEL If it was that beautiful, why did I leave you
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RICK RIORDAN Did God create man, or did man create God? Either way, the decision needs to be reviewed.
ASHWIN SANGHI But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.
KIRK DOUGLAS The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God h...
DALLAS WILLARD The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
DOUGLAS JERROLD God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so ...
ELSA TAMEZ If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the...
MICHELANGELO Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others th...
ETHEL PERCY ANDRUS In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of freedom, like a basta...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth how...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY When we say science we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organize...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on e...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mis...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
From the seas and the streams;
I bear light s...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The desire of the moth for the star,
Of the night for the morrow,
The devotion to something af...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY And many an ante-natal tomb
When butterflies dream of the life to come.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Commerce has set the mark of selfishness,
The signet of its all-enslaving power
Upon a shining...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY . . . then black despair
The shadow of a starless night, was thrown
Over the world in which I ...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY We look before and after,
And pine for what is not,
Our sincerest laughter
With some pai...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains,
And feeds her grief.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Around, around in ceaseless circles wheeling
With clangs of wings and scream, the Eagle sailed
...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY There is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the i...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY