Bellessa For Her Quotes & Sayings

If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out? — Jim Hightower

Pastors, we have to ask ourselves honestly whether the divorce culture and family breakdown inside the churches have not been fueled in part by our own preaching and teaching. When we reduce marriage to endless sermon series on "Putting the Sizzle Back in Your Spouse" and "Ten Tips for Couples for a Hotter, Holier Romance," are we not contributing to the very same emphasis on hormonally-driven acquisitiveness as the culture, rather than on the model of a Christ who displays not just affection but cross-carrying fidelity to his Bride? — Russell D. Moore

We are all special in a way; it is our duty to discover it. — M.F. Moonzajer

The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the advantages which solitude is capable of affording, the mind must not be impelled to it by melancholy and discontent, but by a real distaste to the idle pleasures of the world, a rational contempt for the deceitful joys of life, and just apprehensions of being corrupted and seduced by its insinuating and destructive gayeties. — Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

He works his business and manipulates and keeps himself in front of the world. — Marla Maples

as I'm concerned, slow-cooking is the only way to cook (at least most of the time). It saves time, can be very versatile (check out all the different recipes — Karen Bellessa Petersen

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. — George Sand

Recipe for a dissatisfied adulthood is setting goals that are especially difficult to attain. Measured by life satisfaction 20 years later, the least promising goal that a young person could have was becoming accomplished in a performing art. — Daniel Kahneman

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast. — Paul Thomas Anderson

Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything ... It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap; he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our communion with another may be kept alive, even at the cost of pain. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

He's freaking hot, but I can't go out with him! This isn't the fifteen hundreds. You can't just go around trying to court me to people! — Claire Contreras

I've always thought of myself as a cattle-handling specialist, a college professor first; autism is secondary. — Temple Grandin

Lightning strikes the earth and thunder heralds the doom but the earth bears it all in silence, teaching us that life may be harsh to us but we shouldn't be so to life. — Tista Ray