Bedeque Pastoral Charge Quotes & Sayings

Let the things be illusions or not, after all I would then also be an illusion, and thus they are always like me. — Hermann Hesse

You can't teach at our school if you don't live in the compound. It was like some kind of prison-work farm for our liberal, white, vegetarian do-gooders and conservative, white missionary saviors. — Sherman Alexie

Everything is not all right. It's not helpful, but insulting, to say that it is. What we can hope for is that it will be all right one day. — Tullian Tchividjian

During the earliest attacks of Fear and intense unreality, I sometimes uttered these unconscious and shocking words: 'I should prefer to escape into madness to avoid this consuming fear.' Alas, I did not know what I was saying. In my ignorance I believed that madness was a state of insensibility where there was neither pain nor suffering nor joy, but particularly, no responsibility. Never, for one instant, has I even imagined what 'to lose one's reason' actually meant. — Marguerite Sechehaye

How would you like a friend or loved one talking to you only when they needed something? That's kind of how most of use prayer or meditation. Since there is ALWAYS something for which to be grateful, how about praying or meditating on that? — Charles F. Glassman

The resulting amalgam - an exotic mixture of European, Caribbean, African, and American elements - made Louisiana into perhaps the most seething ethnic melting pot that the nineteenth century world could produce. This cultural gumbo would serve as breeding ground for many of the great hybrid musics of modern times; not just jazz, but also cajun, zydeco, blues, and other new styles flourished as a result of this laissez-faire environment. In this warm, moist atmosphere, sharp delineations between cultures gradually softened and ultimately disappeared. — Ted Gioia

Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child. — Bryant McGill