Apostolic Gift Quotes & Sayings

Example is better than following it. — Ambrose Bierce

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression. — Romola Garai

So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age. — Matthew Lesko

This is the difference between us. I live to sort, he knows how to create. — Ally Condie

risk, reward, control, and capital. — Andrew J. Sherman

Early-stage religion is largely preparing you for the immense gift of this burning, this inner experience of God, as though creating a proper stable into which the Christ can be born. Unfortunately, most people get so preoccupied with their stable, and whether their stable is better than your stable, or whether their stable is the only "one, holy, catholic, and apostolic" stable, that they never get to the birth of God in the soul. There is no indication in the text that Jesus demanded ideal stable conditions; in fact, you could say that the specific mentioning of his birth in a "manger" is making the exact opposite point. Animals at least had room for him, while there was "no room for him in the inn" (Luke 2:8) where humans dwelled. As — Richard Rohr

Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, 'I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.' We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once. — Gore Vidal

Can't you see what's happening? They're killing everyone. They're killing anyone. — Sara Celi

With its ten-foot-high inward sloping walls, slick with algae, I was stuck. "Lord love a duck," I muttered. "Can this get any worse? — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

Then again, as those who suffer from it know, intractable depression creates a planet all its own, largely impermeable to influence from others except as shadow presences, urging you to come out and rejoin the world, take in a movie, go out for a bite, cheer up. — Daphne Merkin

Apostles go into new territory and establish God's kingdom. — Sherry K. White

I think we need to price carbon; there's no question about it. The way we do it needs to be based on science and not political debates and attacks, and that's why I'm drawing on experts and best practices from around the world. — Justin Trudeau

He loved not only her beauty, but that dim soul which he divined behind her suffering eyes. He would intoxicate her with his passion. In the end he would make her forget. — W. Somerset Maugham

We'd go to bed furious with each other, and then she'd wake me in the middle of the night and come and lie on my bed and we'd talk for hours, about nothing and everything, and she'd let me touch the scars on her stomach - the scars from where they cut me out of her. — Melina Marchetta

The apostolic gift to the body of Christ brings order and maturity. — Sherry K. White

I was a creature of the night, I wasn't supposed to be afraid of the dark. Not that it was the dark I was afraid of
it was the other creatures of the night. — Carrie Vaughn