Bardeaux Oaks Quotes & Sayings

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place. — Havelock Ellis

Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I've learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next. Once the dust clears you will be standing tall, a champion, a victor. NOTHING will be able to knock you down once you've taken the biggest hits this life has to offer, so come on life, BRING IT! — Adam Johnson

While religions have historically tried to make us the same, Jesus calls us to be different. If you have ever experienced this, you know your soul bristled at the demand to quietly get in line and conform. But something in your gut told you this was wrong. If there was a God, his value would not be uniformity, but uniqueness. And you were right. Imprinted on your soul is the fingerprint of God. There is something inside you that resists surrendering your soul to legalism. The good news is that all that time it wasn't you fighting against God; you were fighting for what God has created you to become. — Erwin Raphael McManus

I can find the fun in most situations. — Sarah Rees Brennan

With wisdom comes responsibility. Somewhere along the way, I misplaced both. — I.E. Castellano

The Holy Ghost bears witness to us of the truth and impresses upon our souls the reality of God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, so surely that no earthly power or authority can separate us from that knowledge. — James E. Faust

God, do they make WD-40 for flirting? Because I am rusty. — Cora Carmack

The purpose of God as a creator is based in a profound need resident within the Godhead — Sunday Adelaja

TO-DO LIST
1. Buy broccoli
2. Make sure Haddie gets the help she needs from a better therapist.
3. Set up a vocational counseling appointment for Henry.
4. Convince Will to love me again.
5. Get Birdie to talk to me.
6. Bury Louise once and for all.
7. Have a religious epiphany so # 8 is going to be okay with me.
8. Die. — Lesley Kagen

Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when one thinks about it, it is not such a foolish thing to indulge in - particularly if it is the case that in bantering lies the key to human warmth. — Kazuo Ishiguro

What's feeding in Derry? What's feeding on Derry? — Stephen King

I love Britain, I lived there for nine years doing shows and things, but I don't know what a British sensibility is. I'd like to have someone tell me what an American sensibility is. — Frank Oz

Material things may satisfy your temporal desires, but none can be taken with you when you're gone. Build your hopes on things eternal ! — Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Obama did organize a great large number of people and many enthusiastic people, what's called in the press 'Obama's Army.' But the army is supposed to take instructions, not to implement, to introduce, develop programs and call on its own candidate to implement them. That's critical. — Noam Chomsky