Al Maari Quotes & Sayings

When God has become a business, though, it is very hard for people to get the confidence to realize that God is really a personal God, a God who touches us as individuals, a God who is as close to us as we choose to see. We have learned well the remoteness of a God who lived for so long behind communion rails and altar steps and seminary doors and chancery desks that the experience of God, however strong, has always been more private secret than public expectation. — Joan D. Chittister

I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together. If people don't like that, then tough titty, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal; they don't do homages. — Quentin Tarantino

It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all. — Stevie Smith

Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home. Late in life, with indomitable courage, we continue to say that we are going to do what we have not yet done: we are going to build a house. This dream house may be merely a dream of ownership, the embodiment of everything that is considered convenient, comfortable, healthy, sound, desirable, by other people. It must therefore satisfy both pride and reason, two irreconcilable terms. — Gaston Bachelard

But with trust we can strive to accept even what we cannot understand. — Christopher Ryan

This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural. — Erich Segal

When you have a 13 year old child, you suddenly realize that you may need to pick a vocation. — John Tesh

Just because a pastor does well in one situation does not guarantee he or she will do well in another. — Neil T. Anderson

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that the number of overweight adult Americans increased over 60 percent between 1991 and 2000. According to CDC data, the U.S. population of overweight children between ages two and five increased by almost 36 percent from 1989 to 1999. — Richard Louv

If we can move together as a species, I think that there is a possibility that we can make the world a better place. — Dave Sitek