Attractional Vs Missional Quotes & Sayings

But really, they did it because every human being has a basic instinct to help each other out. It might not seem that way sometimes, but it's true. — Andy Weir

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.' — Anna Deavere Smith

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue; but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse. — C.S. Lewis

[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You know, it has always hurt me to think that Galileo did not acknowledge the work of Kepler. — Albert Einstein

I didn't intend to write about totems or people searching. I tried not to constrain myself, and this is what I ended up with. There's this great Auden quote: "I look at what I write so I can see what I think." — Jonathan Safran Foer

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The ultimate test of any civilization is how we treat the most vulnerable ... what we do to our children. Our world has lost its direction. — Ravi Zacharias

Equal rights meant just that, rights for both blacks and women, with the association working for both at the same time. Women should not be told to "stand back and wait." [Frederick] Douglas said that women should be generous and allow the Negro to get his vote first. A young woman in the audience replied that she did not think it generous "to compel women to yield on all questions ... simply because they are women. — Miriam Gurko

The question of how much English should be used in international research universities is one with which I am extremely familiar. I would even say I am deeply puzzled by this trend. I am not certain what the correct answer should be. — Henry Rosovsky

Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you. — Amit Ray

Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow. — Victor Hugo

Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, 'You know what: my dad's a really, really famous theatre director,' because nobody has any idea. — Rebecca Hall

There was a feeling during the years of George W. Bush's presidency that his gracelessness as well as his appetite for war were linked to his impatience with complexity. He acted 'from the gut,' and was economical with the truth until it disappeared. — Teju Cole

There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion. — Edgar Allan Poe

The hijrah to Allah includes abandoning what He hates and doing what He loves and accepts. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya