Akkerman Ingebrand Quotes & Sayings

Yes, I pray and go to church and read my Bible. But sometimes I shake my fist at God. It's not the picture of peace I realize, and I certainly make no claims of wearing the armor of God. I'm lucky if I can get the underwear of decency on, all right? — Rene Gutteridge

We plunge ourselves into enormous debt and then take two and three jobs to stay afloat. We uproot our families with unnecessary moves just so we can have a more prestigious house. We grasp and grab and never have enough. And most destructive of all, our flashy cars and sports spectaculars and backyard pools have a way of crowding out much interest in civil rights or inner city poverty or the starved masses of India. Greed has a way of severing the cords of compassion. Richard J. Foster, 1981 — Catherine Whitmire

I'm convinced we all have a God-shaped space in us, and until we fill that space with God, we'll never know what it is to be whole. — Ann B. Davis

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up. — Winston Churchill

I was very shy - I didn't speak to anyone outside of my family until the fourth grade. — Margaret Stohl

That you may be beloved, be amiable. — Ovid

Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought. — William Barclay

Faith in God is the gift that takes us beyond our limited self, with all its incessant demands. It opens us to a life that stretches us, enlightens us, and often springs surprises upon us. Such faith, like love, sees that which is invisible and lives by it. — Vincent Nichols

I will always have a very deep love for Amy Winehouse. — Lady Gaga

It's wrong to focus only on economic cooperation and then to hope that a sufficiently stable system will become democratic more or less by itself. The EU needs to urge its neighbors to pursue both economic stability and political modernization in equal measures. — Alvaro De Vasconcelos

For too long, Democrats have been telling people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I believe. — Deval Patrick

Perhaps there is after all nothing mysterious in Zen. Everything is open to your full view. If you eat your food and keep yourself cleanly dressed and work on the farm to raise your rice or vegetables, you are doing all that is required of you on this earth, and the infinite is realized in you. — D.T. Suzuki

For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed
relationally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically. — Jen Hatmaker

If you caught your kid raising cats in tiny boxes, forcing them to live in their own feces without clean air or sunlight, pulling their teeth and claws out with pliers to keep them from hurting each other ... you'd rush him to a psychiatrist. But you support that very behavior every time you buy meat, eggs, dairy or fur. — Dan Piraro

In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change. — Alex Steffen