90401 Quotes & Sayings

To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good ... — Pope John Paul II

I can sit in denial of my life because in looking around I see how lucky I am to have survived it. — K. Farrell St. Germain

From now on, he wrote, we must always take into account our knowledge that we can destroy ourselves at will, with all our history and perhaps life on earth itself. Nothing stops us but our own free choosing. If we want to survive, we have to decide to live. Thus, he offered a philosophy designed for a species that had just scared the hell out of itself, but that finally felt ready to grow up and take responsibility. — Sarah Bakewell

The Church expected the Second Coming of Christ immediately, and no doubt this was so in the ordinary literal sense. But it was certainly expected also in another sense. The converts in all the cities of Asia and (soon) of Europe where the small groups were founded had known, in their conversion, one way or another, a first coming of their Redeemer. And then? And then! That was the consequent task and trouble - the then. He had come, and they adored and believed, they communicated and practiced, and waited for his further exhibition of himself. The then lasted, and there seemed to be no farther equivalent Now. Time became the individual and catholic problem. The Church had to become as catholic - as universal and as durable - as time. — Charles Williams

I remember the first year after my second child was born, what I can remember of it at all, as a year of disarray, of overturned glasses of milk, of toys on the floor, of hours from sunrise to sunset that were horribly busy but filled with what, at the end of the day, seemed like absolutely nothing at all. What saved my sanity were books. What saved my sanity was disappearing, if only for fifteen minutes before I inevitably began to nod off in bed ... and as it was for me when I was young and surrounded by siblings, as it is today when I am surrounded by children, reading continues to provide an escape from a crowded house into an imaginary room of one's own. — Anna Quindlen

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas. — Swami Vivekananda

You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you. — Myles Munroe

Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk? — Bobby Knight

There are things that life demands of every person living on the surface of the earth. — Sunday Adelaja