Bernhagen Porter Quotes & Sayings

A church is not a Fortune 500 company. It's not simply another nonprofit organization, nor is it a social club. In fact, a healthy church is unlike any organization that man has ever devised, because man didn't devise it. — Mark Dever

Who wants a life of ease? And who wants a life in the office that you hate, and who wants to play golf? — Sebastian Junger

How much better it would be if they weren't so damn understanding
if they kicked me out of the house. To find yourself out in the street with two dollars to your name, to catch the streetcar downtown and get a job, perhaps as an airline stewardess. Think how wonderful it would be to fly to Houston and back three times a week for the next twenty years. You think I'm kidding? I'm not. It would be wonderful. — Walker Percy

If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it. — Andre Braugher

While we can certainly be mistaken at times about what is real, there is indeed a reality to know. Mistakes actually prove the point. We would not know there were such things as hallucinations or illusions if we did not have reality with which to compare them. — Douglas Beaumont

When you look at pain as material it makes all the difference in the world. I thought, the pain that is too big to be eased by its use as material would be a pain I couldn't (and wouldn't want to) even imagine. — Francesca Lia Block

How can you enjoy ice cream if you never eat broccoli? — James Dashner

But by God sometimes you have to be able to think about the unthinkable! — Ursula K. Le Guin

It is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities" -- Pretty Wittgenstein like. — Milan Kundera

The one thing she had learned was that to be tolerated and endured was less dignified than being hated. And it was infinitely more painful. — Robyn Carr

From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race. — Jean De La Bruyere

Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith. — Francine Rivers

I laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids, who are mooning me and singing me songs. — Melissa McCarthy