Annmarie Gilbert Quotes & Sayings

The wonderment found in the act of obedience is in the transformation power it holds. We become new creations the minute we are born again, through our spiritual rebirth. However, sanctification takes a lifetime. Believers must continually strive to be renewed. As every willful thought and personal desire is laid at the feet of Jesus, we become more and more like Him. And through our refinement, our desires aligned themselves with His perfect will. What we thought to be needs no longer exist. We grasp the secret of contentment and find peace within all situations and circumstances. Our contentment comes in trusting God's will for us and in knowing every need will be met by a faithful and loving Father. — Cheryl Zelenka

My Lord, I leave the infinite to Thee, and pray Thee to put far from me such a love for the tree of knowledge as might keep me from the tree of life. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Hope - cruelest of the evils that escaped Pandora's box - smiled on him gently all that summer. — Mary Doria Russell

A writer can live by his writing. If not so luxuriously as by other trades, then less luxuriously. The nature of the work he does all day will more affect his happiness than the quality of his dinner at night. Whatever be your calling, and however much it brings you in the year, you could still, you know, get more by cheating. We all suffer ourselves to be too much concerned about a little poverty; but such considerations should not move us in the choice of that which is to be the business and justification of so great a portion of our lives; and like the missionary, the patriot, or the philosopher, we should all choose that poor and brave career in which we can do the most and best for mankind. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down. — Margaret Drabble

Every generation's breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation's
Technology — Dan Brown

Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy. — James Nasmyth

But every
kind of socialism is Utopian, most of all scientific socialism. Utopia replaces God by the future. — Albert Camus

People depend on the Open Internet to connect and communicate with each other freely. Voters need it to inform themselves before casting ballots. Without prompt corrective action by the Commission to reclassify broadband, this awful ruling will serve as a sorry memorial to the corporate abrogation of free speech. — Michael Copps

Americans on the average do not trust intellectuals, but they are cowed by power and stunned by celebrity. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

It is a river of ideas from which I fish out sounds that make my soul happy. — Michal Lapaj

There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be. — Adrian Tomine

Once I said to my mother: 'You would be happy if I just kept well-dressed and had good manners,' and she said: 'What else is there?' — Cy Twombly