Batessisterbo Quotes & Sayings

To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul. — Rumi

Pastor Face Your Business" When people say this they mean that I must just stay behind the pulpit and preach — Sunday Adelaja

The true definition of a phony is a high flyer with low mileage; a person who offers a worldview from the comforts of his/her living room. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three or four years, who at play has got its hair tossed and its clothes soiled. These misfortunes have befallen me in battling with souls. But very soon the Blessed Virgin hastens to my aid: quickly, she takes off my dirty little pinafore, smoothes my hair and adorns it with a pretty ribbon or simply with a little flower ... and this suffices to render me pleasing and enables me to sit at the Banquet of Angels without blushing. — Therese Of Lisieux

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away. — Donald Judd

When this happens, as it is today, then, to quote Eric Hoffer, "When freedom destroys order, the yearning for order will destroy freedom."
At that point the words left or right will make no difference. They are only two roads to the same end. There is no difference between authoritarian government from the right or the left: the results are the same. An elite, an authoritarianism as such, will gradually force form on society so that it will not go on to chaos. And most people will accept it - from the desire for personal peace and affluence, from apathy, and from the yearning for order to assure the functioning of some political system, business, and the affairs of daily life. That is just what Rome did with Caesar Augustus — Francis A. Schaeffer

Lei had recently discovered how to change the display, like the Times Square JumboTron,so now the banner read: Merry Christmas! All your presents belong to Leo! — Rick Riordan

Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?
— Josephine Baker

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness. — Ayn Rand

I can't imagine it now, but I must've been innocent at some time in my life. A baby don't just get itself born bad, do it? — Charles De Lint

The first time I kissed Brad my knees went weak - I literally lost my breath! — Jennifer Aniston

Ninety percent of the coaches in the NBA are guards, and there aren't very many big men people coaching, I happen to be one of them and when I coached, everybody on my team, including the guards, had a hook shot, so that it was their bail out shot. — Tom Heinsohn

Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story. — Richard Siken