Bogdan Stupka Quotes & Sayings

We cannot know healing without knowing sickness. We cannot know peace without knowing anxiety. We cannot know light without experiencing darkness. And we cannot believe in the redeeming work of God without seeing the brokenness he is at work in. — Katie Blackburn

Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change? — Frances Wright

...god contradicts his own perfection if he can be reached, touched, disturbed, or in any way changed from it by anything in this material world below. — Ramsay MacMullen

Earth is only a pale version of heaven, not the other way around. — Greg Laurie

Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace. — E. M. Forster

I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing percussion very young, because I had some uncles who were musicians and all my aunts were singers. — Ronaldinho

Which is why the world stays messed up, people aren't rational. — Michael Grant

P69- word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone — Paulo Freire

The hypothesis was based on decades of eyewitness testimony from missionary and colonial physicians and two consistent observations: that these "diseases of civilization" were rare to nonexistent among isolated populations that lived traditional lifestyles and ate traditional diets, and that these diseases appeared in these populations only after they were exposed to Western foods - in particular, sugar, flour, white rice, and maybe beer. — Gary Taubes

For wisdom: read your Bible repeatedly and apply its truths often. — Jim George

Meanwhile, people have to join us and fight back against the federal government that has dropped the ball, that is in bed with these energy companies, that wants them to make more money than they've made before. — Gray Davis

For at least a century, anthropologists have largely played the role of gadflies: whenever some ambitious European or American theorist appears to make some grandiose generalizations about how human beings go about organizing political, economic, or family life, it's always the anthropologist who shows up to point out that there are people in Samoa or Tierra del Fuego or Burundi who do things exactly the other way around. — David Graeber

God is still in the process of dispensing gifts, and He uses ordinary individuals like us to develop those gifts in other people — Howard G. Hendricks

How'd he taste?"
Like a five second rule Oreo ... " he said thoughtfully
A five second rule Oreo?"
A little dirty, but still sweet ... — Amy Lane

Depression is a very sensible reaction to just about everything we live in now. — Chrystos