Crooked Lines Quotes

• A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Ideas, Atheism

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God draws straight with crooked lines.

  Andrew Greeley

  Catholic, Lines, Draws

  Andrew Greeley (2008). “Common Ground: A Priest and a Rabbi Read Scripture Together”, p.219, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Distance, Two, Unification Church

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• My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Christian, Atheist

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

  Alfred Nobel

  Believe, People, Lines

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• God does not have a fixed plan that he must carry out; on the contrary, he has many different ways of finding man and even of turning his wrong ways into right ways...The feast of Christ the King is therefore not a feast of those who are subjugated, but a feast of those who know that they are in the hands of the one who writes straight on crooked lines.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Kings, Writing, Men

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• These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness -- unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place had said, "We'll just follow this cat, and wherever he sits down, we'll build something.

  Maureen Johnson

  Cat, House, Lines

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.69, Penguin

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• Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.

  Arthur Miller

  Distance, Two, Evil

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