Birger Nieuwpoort Quotes & Sayings

If we truly think of Christ as our source of holiness, we shall refrain from anything wicked or impure in thought or act and thus show ourselves to be worthy bearers of his name. For the quality of holiness is shown not by what we say but by what we do in life. — Gregory Of Nyssa

It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living. — Jonathan Weiner

Bono as we all know, is in love with the world, he's enamoured by it. I'm enraged by it. He wants to give the world a great big hug, I want to punch its lights out. — Bob Geldof

In the mid-1600s, Puritan John Gibbon said, "God alone is enough, but without him, nothing [is enough] for thy happiness."[218] Whether or not we're conscious of it, since God is the fountainhead of happiness, the search for happiness is always the search for God. — Randy Alcorn

Nobody responds to being made to feel judged. — Shalom Harlow

I wish I were a bird. I'd fly all the way up to the clouds and look down on this place, and then I'd go far away and never come back. — Jason Medina

When I watch comedy I love to see that pleasure in the performer's eye and that sense of cheek - and even those moments when you can see someone is trying not to laugh. — Mathew Baynton

The strange thing was, when I was starting on YouTube, even the paradigm of YouTube and Internet sensation - or whatever - that didn't really exist. So I didn't even know that that was a thing. — Bo Burnham

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. — Haruki Murakami

I am uncertain whether our civilization at this turn of the millennium is cursed by too much or too little belief, whether people like Bernard and June cause the trouble, or people like me. — Ian McEwan

Hearts can be treacherous, but the best way to keep them from fooling you is to listen to them intently — Paulo Coelho

the prudent person neither neglects important commitments nor gets overextended. — William C. Mattison III

Maybe I needed sensitivity training. I once signed up for an anger management class, but the instructor pissed me off. — Darynda Jones

I squared my shoulders, trying to ignore the fact that I was standing in the apartment of the sea witch, wearing a fairy-tale prom gown, waiting for the attack of the mermaids. — Seanan McGuire