Avanzare Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

What I am suggesting is that faith in Jesus risen from the dead transcends but includes what we call history and what we call science. Faith of this sort is not blind belief that rejects all history and science. Nor is it simply - which would be much safer! - a belief that inhabits a totally different sphere, discontinuous from either, in a separate watertight compartment. Rather, this kind of faith, which is like all modes of knowledge defined by the nature of its object, is faith in the creator God, the God who has promised to put all things to rights at the end, the God who (as the sharp point where those two come together) has raised Jesus from the dead within history, leaving as I said evidence that demands an explanation from the scientist as well as anybody else. — N. T. Wright

A show of power is not the same as silent power. — T.F. Hodge

If someone is nice enough to come up to you and tell you how much they enjoy your work, and all they want in return is to take a photograph and for you to chat for five minutes, then I am delighted to do that. — Daniel Portman

The class went all right, and the ones after became easier. I was enthusiastic, naive and idealistic, and I was in love with my books. — Azar Nafisi

I set her on her wooden baby seat so her little hiney don't fall in and soon as I turn my back, she off that pot running. — Kathryn Stockett

You can tell by looking at me that I've got more miles behind me than I've got in front of me. When you reach that point, if you've got some good years left, you want to make sure that you use them wisely. — Tom Osborne