Atsumu Quotes & Sayings

How not to miss those days when the sun was a happy companion that stayed to play all year round and kissed me a careless nut brown? When Mother caught the sweet rain in her well behind the house, and the air was so clear that the grass smelled green? — Rani Manicka

Christ, who came meek and mild to save us from pain and suffering, was the One who talked more about hell than any other person in Scripture. — D. James Kennedy

One day, John asked her to define sin. I doubt any theologian could have done better than she did: "Son, whatever weakens your reasoning, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes away your relish for spiritual things; in short, if anything increases the authority and power of the flesh over the Spirit, then that to you becomes sin, however good it is in itself."1That definition became the guiding beacon for John. He carved it into his consciousness. His mother inbred in him his sensitivity to sin. — Ravi Zacharias

The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead, it appears you have some explaining to do. The stark signifier of the human condition is one who spoke up for love and justice and was done to death for his pains. The traumatic truth of human history is a mutilated body. — Terry Eagleton

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm. — Edwin Way Teale

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination ... you can make feast of straw. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world which might cease to exist. — Roman Vishniac

People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth. — V.S. Pritchett

The only real education comes from what goes counter to you. — Andre Gide