Bernauer Hof Quotes & Sayings

The Bible is not, in other words, simply a list of true doctrines or a collection of proper moral commands - though it includes plenty of both. The Bible is not simply the record of what various people thought as they struggled to know God and follow him, though it is that as well. It is not simply the record of past revelations, as though what mattered were to study such things in the hopes that one might have one for oneself. It is the book whose whole narrative is about new creation, that is, about resurrection, so that when each of the gospels ends with the raising of Jesus from the dead, and when Revelation ends with new heavens and new earth populated by God's people risen from the dead, this should come not as a surprise but as the ultimate fulfillment of what the story had been about all along. — N. T. Wright

Ganix didn't need to make friends. Everyone was a friend! — C.J. Milbrandt

The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort. — Robert A. Heinlein

But I couldn't ever make that dream happen. It just came on its own, the way dreams do. — Emily M. Danforth

It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin. — Thomas Aquinas

We each are young, we each have a heart, Oh, why should we thus stand coldly apart — Louisa May Alcott

There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

I'm really obsessed with this idea that we're living in this environment where there's always magic around us that we are not perceiving. — Reid Carolin

First semester, I learned that Jack Rogers sandals, so revered in college, screamed, "My small liberal arts school will always be the center of the universe!" I'd found a new axis, so into the trash went my gold, silver, and white pairs. — Jessica Knoll

We came to Macun when I was four, to a rectangle of rippled metal sheets on stilts hovering in the middle of a circle of red dirt. — Esmeralda Santiago