Famous quotes containing the words healing, belief, systems and/or christianity:
“War has always been the great wisdom of all those spirits who have grown too inward, too deep; its healing power lies even in the wound.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)
“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.”
—Anne Sullivan (18661936)
“I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)