Quotes about Subtle

Now the serpent was more subtile than any beast of the field.

Cleo touched Sarah's head. "Cross your arms on the table and sleep awhile." Sarah did as she was told, wishing they could leave. Cleo obviously wasn't ready to leave. She seemed to be having a good time, and she kept staring at Merrick and smiling in a way Sarah had never seen her smile before.

I leave it to the philosophers to discuss these faculties in their subtle way. For the upbuilding of godliness a simple definition will be enough for us.

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

The Lord God is subtle, but malicious he is not.

God may be subtle, but He isn't mean.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

That age of the church which was most fertile in subtle questions was most barren in religion; for it makes people think religion to be only a matter of cleverness, in tying and untying of knots.

He heard something? That's the best the writer can do? That's so vague. Ambiguous. Fuzzy. Exactly. Sometimes the most powerful truths in a story are the ones that are never explicitly stated.

Chi is the equivalent of prana, and it, too, is an expression of consciousness. Chi is the subtle life-force energy that flows throughout the body and upholds health.

It is good, that you enlighten people about Harry Potter, because those are subtle seductions, which act unnoticed and by this deeply distort Christianity in the soul, before it can grow properly.