Bahamians Migrating Quotes & Sayings

It is one step, and a giant one, to see clearly and participate in the love that flows between the persons of the Trinity, but even here, God is seen as the object of his own love. It is yet another step to realize that God is beyond all subject and object and is Himself love without subject or object. This is the step beyond our highest experiences of love and union, a step in which self is not around to divide, separate, objectify or claim anything for itself. Self does not know God; it cannot love him, and from the beginning has never done so. — Bernadette Roberts

We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy. — Wendell Berry

Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality. — Cecil Beaton

Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world. — Ellis Peters

I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm sure, like the time of illuminated manuscripts. — Edwidge Danticat

Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide. — Khalil Gibran

There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom ... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I don't think of my characters as bumbling. I think that trouble is what drives a novel, both big troubles and small troubles, and whatever people try to do in life, there are a series of stumbling-blocks in the way, and I think that makes for interesting reading. I think of them as doing their best with the roadblocks that they're given. — Tom Drury

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour? — Russ Carnahan

The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed, when 'the Word became flesh and dwelt among us' (Jn. 1:14). — Saint Augustine

When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers. — Mary Travers

We're in a tough place in this world. There are a lot of kids giving up very early. Scripture says it takes a village to raise one child, and that's what these coaches are going to have to go back and understand. — Ray Lewis

I heard our kid here is quite the scrapper. — Lee Davidson

I've never wanted to marry," Pandora continued. "Anyone who knows me will tell you that. When I was little, I never liked the stories about princesses waiting to be rescued. I never wished on falling stars, or pulled the petals off daisies while reciting 'he loves me, he loves me not. — Lisa Kleypas

The principle of the Inquisition was murderous ... The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation. — Lord Acton