Blacksummersnight Quotes & Sayings

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it. — Adam Clarke

The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream ... Hang in there. — James De La Vega

We fear beginnings; we fear endings. We fear changing; we fear "staying stuck." We fear success; we fear failure. We fear living; we fear dying. — Susan Jeffers

The end and beginnings of beings are unknown. We see only the intervening formations. Then what cause is there for grief? — Aviott John

The clouds hung like dark, blowing tapestries in the gaps of the hills. — Louis L'Amour

If it were possible to hear a smile, hers would be a love song. — Colleen Hoover

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life. — Georg Simmel

Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons. — John Lancaster Spalding

Yes, that resurrection does indeed give us a sure and certain hope. If that's not the case, we are of all people, as Paul says, most to be pitied.3 But when the New Testament strikes the great Easter bell, the main resonances it sets up are not simply about ourselves and about whatever future world God is ultimately going to make, when heaven and earth are joined together and renewed at last from top to bottom. Precisely because the resurrection has happened as an event within our own world, its implications and effects are to be felt within our own world, here and now. This — N. T. Wright

What's your name, anyway?"
That awkward shrug again. "They call me Wolf at the fights."
" Wolf? " How ... predatory. — Marissa Meyer

Those who stop dreaming are lost. — Australian Aboriginal

Rise above selfishness. This includes spiritual selfishness, when one looks toward personal edification and strengthening and has no other interest than one's own salvation. To be blessed is not an end in itself; we must be a blessing to others. All people have a talent in one way or another to touch and inspire other people's lives. Let us not only look inward and proudly say 'all is well in Zion; yea, Zion prospereth' (2 Ne. 28:21), but let us be a light unto a chaotic world. — Hans B. Ringger

You found your family tree, Rowdy, and the branches are stronger and sturdier than most people with blood relatives have. — Jay Crownover