Archivists For Congregations Quotes & Sayings

Ghosts are just pieces of memory. They haunt us because we don't want to forget. We are the ghost makers. We take fragments of the dead and project them onto shadows and sounds, trying to make sense of loss by assigning it a new shape. Ghosts aren't real. — Carrie Arcos

Listen in silence to the whisper of the winds so that you may understand the song of your heart. — Debasish Mridha

The temptation to lead as a chess master, controlling each move of the organization, must give way to an approach as a gardener, enabling rather than directing. A gardening approach to leadership is anything but passive. The leader acts as an "Eyes-On, Hands-Off" enabler who creates and maintains an ecosystem in which the organization operates. — Stanley McChrystal

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again. — Mary Augusta Ward

I've always considered myself the best and the top. I never considered that I was out of it. — Serena Williams

Thus began the long process of transforming Jesus from a revolutionary Jewish nationalist into a peaceful spiritual leader with no interest in any earthly matter. That was a Jesus the Romans could accept, and in fact did accept three centuries later when the Roman emperor Flavius Theodosius (d. 395) made the itinerant Jewish preacher's movement the official religion of the state, and what we now recognize as orthodox Christianity was born. — Reza Aslan

Love is friendship. Love is happiness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is as white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leporous. — John Steinbeck

But no verse, not Stanhope's, not Shakespeare's, not Dante's could rival the original, and this was the original, and the verse was but the best translation of a certain manner of its life. The glory of poetry could not outshine the clear glory of the certain fact, and not any poetry could hold as many meanings as the fact. — Charles Williams

[T]he game's got to be played on the field, and that's the one day that's got to be the most important day. — Lisa Fernandez

Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.) — Mark Z. Danielewski

Talk of Power and Might would always attract an audience. Lords never went out of fashion. — Clive Barker

Take your worst nightmares, and put my face to them. — Tommy Lynn Sells

As soldiers we have few saving graces. Perhaps our willingness to die for what we believe in is all that matters. — Leo Gordon