Burchardt Garden Quotes & Sayings

The key element in beginning to learn to embody the love of God is not heroic faith and determination. It has to do with whether or not we can take hold of the love of God as a power that includes us within it. The difference is between seeing life from the inside of God versus seeing it from within my own sensibilities and capacities. From inside the love of God, suffering becomes not only bearable, but a privilege of participating with Christ in his love for the world. This cannot be rationally explained or justified, but it is the fruit of a life trustingly lived in and for God who is all love. — Shane Claiborne

Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, "Lord, save me!" - MATTHEW 14:29 — Sarah Young

How Long Before Monsanto Try to Patent The Milk of Human Kindness — Dean Cavanagh

My love for you will still be strong after the boys of summer have gone. — Don Henley

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray. — Albert Camus

I think humanitarians really feel very awkward and embarrassed about marketing, but it really doesn't matter whether a shampoo gets better marketing. It does matter when a famine or a huge crisis is - oh - well, I hate to use the word 'marketed' better but, you know, is publicized in a way that will be more effective. — Nicholas Kristof

The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight ... — Thomas Hobbes

And what was that about blood brothers? That means absolutely nothing. You might as well have said you were pinecone cousins. — Pierce Brown

There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty. — Samuel Beckett

For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters. — B.H. Liddell Hart

She had never met Caroline's mother, but she knew a thing or two about what happened when someone went far away, how after a time you couldn't see their faces anymore when you closed your eyes or hear exactly how they laughed at a joke, how they seemed less like a real person whom you loved and more like a character in a story. And once that happened, it was easy, too easy, to let them float away like milkweed. — Hannah Barnaby

In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply at the regional level. For the first time in history, grain production is dropping in a geographic region with nothing in sight to arrest the decline. Each day now brings 10,000 more people to feed and less irrigation water with which to feed them. — Lester R. Brown

I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Bach has taken us on a journey that we interpret and experience through our own memories, feelings and conditioning. You will respond differently from the way I do, and vice versa. That is the glory of music, especially music as immortal as this. — James Rhodes

It's funny about imagination, how it — Ivan Doig