Quotes About Sophia

That child, said Sophia, is a bit of a problem.

I love Charlotte Olympia and Sophia Webster shoes best - they're like art for the feet.

My favorite magazine is the 'Harvard Business Review.' If someone sat across from me in a restaurant and didn't know me, that might surprise them.

Ah, Constantinople, I would so love to visit Constantinople, to see its domes and minarets, to walk inside the Sancta Sophia and breathe the ancient air of Byzantium—

Synchronicity has been defined, tongue-in-cheek, as "God acting anonymously," which nonetheless alludes to an awe that can accompany an especially uncanny and significant synchronicity. Maybe we should think of it as "Sophia acting anonymously," when we know through the synchronicity that there is no adequate explanation for how this could happen other than that we are part of an interconnected spiritual universe that has just shown us that we matter.

The Gnostic's passionate adoration of Sophia was known as philosophia – the love of Sophia – a mystical communication with divine feminine wisdom, having little to do with the strictly intellectual, most often masculine, pursuit currently labeled "philosophy.

Sometimes the world seemed to come with subtitles, like a foreign film. So help her, sometimes people's hidden motives, their lies, their rationalizations, were so pitifully apparent that Sophia felt she could just sit and read them.

Hagia Sophia successfully marries the old Greek science of theoretical geometry to Roman skills of practical engineering

The issue is no longer believing that Jesus was literally the Son of God, but appreciating the richness of meaning suggested by the multiplicity of Christological images. He was "the Son," yes, but also the incarnation of the Word, which was also the Wisdom of God. He was the Son of God, the logos of God, and the Sophia of God.

We inhabit a three-body cosmos. Sophia is essentially the matriarch of a single-parent family—a single-planet goddess, if you will. But she relies on the support of the surrogate parents, sun and moon, to manage her terrestrial brood.

Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She had common-sense too, and what man wanted the plainly matter-of-fact, when he could enjoy instead Sophia's delicious folly?

I forced the girl to come aboard the Albatross , and brought her over to France. At Dieppe, I discovered the mistake I'd made. She was no Sophia, but a lady, and virtuous to boot.' 'I'll be bound she enjoyed it prodigiously for all that,' sighed Miss Marling. 'I should.

Lord Francis sighed. "When you get back to Bedlam, Soph," he said, "ask them to reserve a room for me, will you? There's a good girl. I am going to be needing it soon." Sophia clucked her tongue and spurred her horse to a canter. Lord Francis shook his head and went after her.

Leibniz used to discourse to Queen Sophia Charlotte of Prussia concerning the infinitely little, and how she would reply that on that subject she needed no instruction—the behaviour of courtiers had made her thoroughly familiar with it.

It was true I no longer believed in the God of rescue, only the God of presence, but I believed in Sophia, who whispered bravery and wisdom in my ear day and night, if I would only listen, and I tried now to do that, to listen.

Sophia, sandals off, was standing at the water's edge. -Disappearing Earth

I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board.

Chrysostom earned the virulent hatred of many among the powerful when, at the Cathedral of St. Sophia in the imperial capital, he dared follow this understanding of the gospel to its consequences, declaring that the enormous differences between the rich and the poor and between the ruling classes and the rest of the population were incompatible with the gospel itself.

These clay pots contained additional Gospels, Apocalypses, and additional Books of Acts written by the other disciples but not included due to their acknowledgement of the Goddesses, expressly Sophia and the Holy Spirit.

Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.

But a little warning did come up on Sophia's UI, letting her know that the existence of Moab was in question. Opinions differed as to whether it had been burned off the surface of the world by a nuclear blast twelve years ago.

Selon la tradition, c'est lui qui aurait inventé le mot « philosophie » en disant que seuls les dieux ont droit au beau nom de sage (sophos en grec), l'homme, quant à lui, ne peut qu'aimer la sagesse (philo, en grec, signifie « aimer » et sophia, « sagesse »), tendre vers elle, s'efforcer de l'atteindre.

Pythagore - Selon la tradition, c'est lui qui aurait inventé le mot « philosophie » en disant que seuls les dieux ont droit au beau nom de sage (sophos en grec), l'homme, quant à lui, ne peut qu'aimer la sagesse (philo, en grec, signifie « aimer » et sophia, « sagesse »), tendre vers elle, s'efforcer de l'atteindre.

Incidentally, I have also learned a bit about the importance of avoiding feminine embarrassment ('Daddy,' wrote Sophia when she enrolled at the New School where I teach, 'people will ask why is old Christopher Hitchens kissing that girl?') and shall now cease and desist.