Blackaby Daily Devotional Quotes & Sayings

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation. — John Calvin

It's just certain people that I get the giggles with. — Jeremy Sumpter

My only other choice was to rejoin my mother and listen to fascinating facts about every eligible man passing by. (Apparently, Mr. Egbert collects gentleman's bootlaces! The wonder of it all.) — Kelly Zekas

I ain't never heardin' of a place called Odin."

Now Mazda knew. Hillbilly. A fucking hillbilly. If there was one thing that Mazda disliked more than Greeks, it was hillbillies. He grabbed the slack-jawed yokel by the throat and lifted him off the ground, "Not a place. A who."

The man had a difficult time speaking, "Awho? Who's Awho? Is he at Odin? — Dylan Callens

I love you, Miracle," he whispered. "You're mine," he said, inching his way forward a bit more, "and i'm yours," he added, moving further in. "Forever. — M. Leighton

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless. — Chester Nimitz

What appears on the page comes out of your experience, and no-one is going to see it in quite the same way - so, that being so, you're already doing something in a thoroughly individual and idiosyncratic way anyway. — Ronald Frame

I considered mores to be one of the great general causes responsible for the maintenance of a democratic republic ... the term "mores" ... meaning ... habits of the heart. — Alexis De Tocqueville

But to be loving is simply this: a willingness to respond freely and openly. Right now, it may be limited to one or two people in your lives. But it is possible to extend this ability to embrace the entire world. — Sadhguru

When thoughts tell you it's too late, dismiss them. You haven't dreamed your best dream. You haven't run your best race. — Joel Osteen

As a journalist in Providence, I was particularly drawn toward stories about women's issues: I wrote about discrimination, abortion, violence against women. I wrote about women's health, sexism in the media, cultural imagery. I even wrote about women (other women) with eating disorders. And quietly, privately, I starved myself half to death. There you have it: intellectual belief without the correlary of emotional roots; feminist power understood in the mind but not known, somehow, in the body. — Caroline Knapp

Sometimes the words that are left unspoken are the ones that most needed to be said. — Vi Keeland

Words are like food. They contain information that either releases and liberates and creates possibilities and development or locks you into unhealthy patterns you can't change. — Thorbjorg Hafsteinsdottir

Being a comedian is like being a con man. You have to make 'em like you before you can fool 'em. — Flip Wilson

Politicians are like dogs ... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable — Henry Kissinger