140th District Quotes & Sayings

Forgive me for not being willing to hear your call until now, dear Lord. But I am here and I am ready. Direct me to where I should next go. Reveal to me how I should next serve you. Grant me the wisdom and the strength to trust you in all things. Wherever you lead. Whatever task you set. Help me, Lord. — Davis Bunn

Missions is practicing God's presence until His passion compels us to obey. — Ann Dunagan

History-writing is not a visit of condolence. — Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier

By so giving up, of course, it renews itself- that is the secret — Gregory Maguire

For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity. — Hermann Hesse

Remember to forget what lies behind, reach and press forward. — Jim George

I'm a woman. I understand this. What's the reason for it to hold me back? — Elizabeth Redmond

The trauma of 9/11 stimulated infinite possibilities for worry - some quite plausible, but most inspired by remote what-if fantasies. A society bingeing on fear makes itself vulnerable to far more profound forms of destruction than terror attacks. The "terrorism war", like a nostalgic echo of the cold war, is using these popular fears to advance a different agenda - the re-engineering of American life through permanent mobilization. — William Greider