Bishop Tudor Bismark Quotes & Sayings

The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church. — Vance Havner

because you are die surface of my sky.
My body is the land,
the place for you...
the pigeons fly
the pigeons come down... — Mahmoud Darwish

Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which we ourselves can do, yet all has been unavailing, and we have only shown we cannot, not we will not, help ourselves; that often just then something comes, almost as if supernaturally, to settle for us, as if our guardian angel took pity on our perplexities, and then at last obtained leave to help us? And if it be so, then what might only be a coincidence becomes a call of Providence, a voice from Heaven, a command. — James Anthony Froude

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises. — Christopher Walken

It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well. — Thomas A Kempis

The division of members into Tories or Whigs had by 1761 lost nearly all significance; the real division was between supporters and opponents of the current "government," or ministry, or of the king. By and large the Tories protected the landed interest; the Whigs were willing now and then to consider the desires of the business class; otherwise both Tories and Whigs were equally conservative. Neither party legislated for the benefit of the masses. — Will Durant

What happens is, especially when I was writing for my band, Creedence, and it's the way I write now, I go into "guitar lick" mode. When I do, it sort of leads into a real song. I'd say to myself, your songwriting is coming up with a guitar lick, and the rest is easy! — John Fogerty

Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows. — George Eliot

I obviously have a lot of love and affection for the people of Hamilton from playing there for so long. — Darren Flutie

To share out your soul freely, that is what metanoia (a change of mind, or repentance)really refers to: a mental product of love. A change of mind, or love for the undemonstrable. And you throw off every conceptual cloak of self-defense, you give up the fleshly resistance of your ego. Repentance has nothing to do with self-regarding sorrow for legal transgressions. It is an ecstatic erotic self-emptying. A change of mind about the mode of thinking and being. — Christos Yannaras

Lou Grant was pretty much always Lou Grant. — Mary Tyler Moore

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over. — Henry George

How we look To the World Will Bring Us by our Destination. — Jan Jansen

What is obscenity? And to whom? — Allen Ginsberg

Ever since Constantine made Christianity the official "imperial faith, " Christians have been trying to push the camel of power and wealth through the slender needle's eye of the vision of Jesus. — Kurt Neilson