Cambia Portland Quotes & Sayings

Genuine surrender says, "Father, if this problem, pain, sickness, or circumstance is needed to fulfill your purpose and glory in my life or in another's, please don't take it away." This level of maturity does not come easy. — Rick Warren

In digital world, sport provides opportunity to bring people together. — Edwin Moses

The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in the bed. — Michael Foot

For the church as we know it is a tragically dysfunctional family, in which some children are starving while others have food stashed in their closets. Some of us are living on the street while others have empty rooms in our homes. And, of course, there are all sorts of things being done that bring great dishonor and embarrassment to the family name. — Shane Claiborne

Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind ... and they just go blind ... they sit around in their huts. — Fred Hollows

I shall never find a better document for a phenomenology of a being which is at once established in its roundness and developing in it. Rilke's tree propagates in green spheres a roundness that is a victory over accidents of form and the capricious events of mobility. Here becoming has countless forms, countless leaves, but being is subject to no dispersion: If I could ever succeed in grouping together all the images of being, all the multiple, changing images that, in spite of everything, illustrate permanence of being, Rilke's tree would open an important chapter in my album of concrete metaphysics. — Gaston Bachelard

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom. — Abraham Lincoln

The years of space flight since the orbiting of Sputnik I back in 1957 had produced many fascinating results, but they had also brought a realization of the many problems that surrounded the use of rockets for space flight. — Donald A. Wollheim

In some ways, you get to find your voice better in [a sequel] because you have to define how you're doing it differently. — Daniel Radcliffe

Drama holds a mirror up to life, but needn't reproduce it. — Roger Ebert

Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place. — Walter Savage Landor

God's purpose in creating Adam and Eve is summed up in what they could do for God that nothing else in the whole creation could do. They had an exclusive on God shared by no other of God's creation. — A.W. Tozer

Unboxing is a new voyeuristic phenomenon that's erotic and technical at the same time. — Jason Merkoski

Shame scowled. "How about I just make you angry again? That coat makes you look fat."
"Even more reason to take the stairs. — Devon Monk

To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon. — Kurt Vonnegut