Brevig Memorial Lutheran Quotes & Sayings

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. — George Santayana

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge. — Albert Camus

Every question "runs in a vicious circle" because political life as a whole is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number of links. The whole art of politics lies in finding and taking as firm a grip as we can of the link that is least likely to be struck from our hands, the one that is most important at the given moment, the one that most of all guarantees its possessor the possession of the whole chain. — Vladimir Lenin

Spiritual principles do not change, but we do. — Marianne Williamson

Dr. Buford's profession was medicine and his obsession was anything that grew in the ground, so he stayed poor. — Harper Lee

It was only his fifth offense, and this time he's killed someone. — Hank Williams Jr.

The Completer and Wu Wang all used spears and battle-axes in order to succor their generation. The SSU-MA FA says: If one man slay another of set purpose, he himself — Sun Tzu

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. — Francis Bacon

Our work is not to save souls, but to disciple them. Salvation and sanctification are the work of God's sovereign grace, and our work as His disciples is to disciple others' lives until they are totally yielded to God. One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit. As workers for God, we must reproduce our own kind spiritually, and those lives will be God's testimony to us as His workers. God brings us up to a standard of life through His grace, and we are responsible for reproducing that same standard in others. — Oswald Chambers

I was looking down the road of "life gone by" and I realized this road of life is not as long as it looks. Travel with caution and maximize every mile. It can be a beautiful journey. — Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly. — Damian Lewis

Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher. — Cyndi Lauper