Absently Opposite Quotes & Sayings

is often considered to be something children use in play and then discard when they become adults and put away childish things. We are therefore not surprised to learn that children use their imagination to enter stories, to experience them, and even to meet God there, but few adults think of using their imagination to meet God. However, following the lead of children could enrich the spiritual walk for adults. — Catherine Stonehouse

Proverbs, and the wisdom literature in general, counter the idea that being spiritual means handing all decisions over to the leading of the Lord. The opposite is true. Proverbs reveals that God does not make all people's decisions for them, but rather expects them to use his gift of reason to interpret the circumstances and events of life within the framework of revelation that he has given. Yet when they have exercised their responsibility in decision-making, they can look back and see that the sovereign God has guided. — Graeme Goldsworthy

The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became a work of art. — Frederick C. Beiser

We all have issues & we have usually come by them honestly. — Allan Lokos

Free advice is often overpriced. — Charles E. McKenzie

You must never actually cheat the customer, even if you can. You must make her happy and satisfied, so she will come back. — Alexander Turney Stewart

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life. — George Strait

Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death? — Mahatma Gandhi

The origin of nursing started out with prostitutes, who would go care for people in jail. That was back when nobody wanted to go to the hospital because it was basically a place that you went to die. It started progressing with the visiting nurses in the South. The women started wearing these outfits to make it look like they were more sophisticated and so that they could be more respected. They started recruiting women from good education backgrounds because they wanted to make it a more respected profession. — Eve Hewson

It is not the gentle kiss of a couple on a first date, nor is it the kiss of a man driven by simple lust. He kisses me with the desperation of a dying man who believes the magic of eternal life is in this kiss. — Susan Ee

And as many of the plates as Joseph Smith translated I handled with my hands, plate after plate. — Martin Harris

And it was from a Hindu, Swami Satprakashananda with his Christmas talks on "Jesus Christ, the Son of God," that I received the strongest confirmation - by an outside examiner, as it were - of Jesus's divine nature. — Huston Smith

I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God. — Ernst Mayr