Bandoleers Quotes & Sayings

had gone to heaven. Enoch was "translated" and Elijah was "taken up." One could "ascend" a ladder (Jesus had told Nathanael that he would see angels ascending and descending on the Son of Man, and Jacob beheld a ladder in his midnight dream at Bethel) or one could "ascend" to Jerusalem, moving to a higher elevation from sea level. The term could be used figuratively to refer to the elevation of a king to his royal office. But no one ever had "ascended to heaven" in the sense in which Jesus was speaking. The ascension of Jesus was the supreme political event of world history. He ascended — R.C. Sproul

27John answered, d "A person cannot receive even one thing e unless it is given him f from heaven. — Anonymous

Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before ... and it was blissful oblivion, better than firewhisky; she was the only real thing in the world. — J.K. Rowling

The United States of America is one of the most studied but least understood nations in the contemporary world. — Robert Singh

Shall we stop this bleeding? — Abraham Lincoln

As a revolutionary people, we Americans won a probable victory over the best and biggest army in the world because we learned to fight from the Indians. You can do a lot of damage with a Kentucky rifle from behind a tree. You don't put on a peaked hat and a red coat and white leggings and crossed white bandoleers with a big silver buckle in the center of the X and march uphill into a line of Howitzers loaded with chain and chopped horseshoes. — James Lee Burke

Life in New York is one of succumbing to a tidal wave of control and direction, of numbing oneself to emotion. — Chris Benz

I want a house with a garden, but slap bang in the centre of London. Next door to a sushi bar. — Michelle Dockery

My, my, aren't we pushy . . . — Julie James