Annalene Avendano Quotes & Sayings

In treadmill religion, we have to work hard and perform at a high level for God to take notice of us.
The problem with treadmill performance religion is that it leads to either pride or despair. If you keep the rules of your religious team, you become arrogant. Conversely if you fail to keep the rules of your religious team, you despair. Justifying grace gives us full assurance that God will love us no more if we perform well and love us no less if we perform poorly. By justifying grace, our acceptance before God and the grounds for our righteousness are solely Jesus' works of sinless living, substitutionary death, and bodily resurrection and therefore are not in any way contingent upon what we do or do not do. — Mark Driscoll

Me up at does
out of the floor
quietly Stare
a poisoned mouse
still who alive
is asking What
have i done that
You wouldn't have — E. E. Cummings

I have a bunch of brothers. I grew up with a big family. — Taylor Kinney

I've always had a man's mindset, and that's why I mostly have men friends, and that's why I've been around so many men. I've always been a tomboy. And any man that knows me will tell you I'm not a girly girl. — Karrine Steffans

First, I started taking dance classes, and then I started taking singing lessons. Then my mom put me into a year-round theatre program where I did seven shows. — Lilla Crawford

there seemed to be two kinds of reviewers: some who would look for flaws in the papers, and then pounce to kill them; and others who started from a place of seeking and promoting good ideas. When the "idea protectors" saw flaws, they pointed them out gently, in the spirit of improving the paper - not eviscerating it. — Ed Catmull

Never before has the world been so desperately asking for answers to crucial questions, and never before has the world been so frantically committed to the idea that no answers are possible. — Edmund Clowney

I've always stayed really close with my mother and my father. — Nicole Richie

God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness. — Joan Baez

I don't know you well enough to like or dislike you." "I have the opposite opinion. Seeing you react to difficult situations and watching you interact with strangers tells me you're an incredible person. — E.B. Sullivan

Now I realize what I've known all along, that this ability, or this gift, rather, comes at a cost. It always has. — Carla Trueheart

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really. — Emma Thompson

Our greatest need is not to try harder. Our greatest need is a new heart. — David Platt