Bible Sensitivity Quotes & Sayings

You're at a Jewish wedding. How can you tell if it's Orthodox, Reform, or Liberal? A: In an Orthodox wedding, the bride's mother is pregnant. In a Reform wedding, the bride is pregnant. In a Liberal wedding the rabbi is pregnant. — David Minkoff

Fate is a lazy man's excuse for avoiding curiosity. — Brian Farrey

It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them. — Marilynne Robinson

A dream is simply reality waiting to happen. — John P. Strelecky

The reason why darkness terrifying for us, he reflected, is that there remains in us the instinctive fear the primitive man had when there was as yet no light. — Shusaku Endo

Like when you wake up at night, and the only sounds you hear are the sounds inside your head. — Mark Haddon

People are far more important than rigid rules and demanding expectations. — Charles R. Swindoll

Sometimes you have to do something you dislike to create something you desire. — Mike Murdock

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species. — Henry Fielding

I'm not a New Yorker. I grew up in Detroit. A lot of people think it's one big city but they're completely different. — Mike Binder

I believe that there is no greater enemy to vital life-breathing faith than insisting on cultural sameness. When fear rules your theology, God is nowhere to be found in your paradigm, no matter how many Bible verses you tack onto it. I think that as parents we would be more effective in our parenting if we leveled with our children, if we told them that some of our dearly held rules are not morally grounded but are made for our convenience. I know that many times when I insist that my children turn off the video, my "rules" are the result of my own noise-sensitivity, not some moral abhorrence about Pixar or Disney. I never know how to respond to the women who tell me that they need to be in a church made of people with whom they can identify, people who are like them. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very rich are a poor bunch of bastards — John Steinbeck