It is a waste of words to try to impute to the Creator democratic ideas or social virtues; or to think that one can move Him with weeping and wailing, and persuade Him with logic and legal quibbles. Nothing is so pointless as words.


Kristnihald undir Jökli (Under the Glacier/Christianity at Glacier) (1968)

Halldór Laxness Quotes

It is a waste of words to try to impute to the Creator democratic ideas or social virtues; or to think that one can move Him with weeping and...

It is a waste of words to try to impute to the Creator democratic ideas or social virtues; or to think that one can move Him with weeping and...

It is a waste of words to try to impute to the Creator democratic ideas or social virtues; or to think that one can move Him with weeping and...

It is a waste of words to try to impute to the Creator democratic ideas or social virtues; or to think that one can move Him with weeping and...