Canadian Annuity Quotes & Sayings

One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn't use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That's why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities. — Marie-Louise Von Franz

Christ leads us into the wilderness of suffering to engage us there. When he meets us in the wilderness, he is manna, he is water from a broken rock. But he is also the one who wants us to potently feel our lack so that we cling to him. The Apostle Paul expressed as much when he wrote, we are 'sorrowful, yet always rejoicing.' God is the one who leads us into the desert and who makes us feel exposed and frail there. He is the one who turns the wilderness into a womb from which his children are born into gladness. And, like Hagar, we cry, 'You are the God who sees. — Ben Palpant

A good dream, is better than a shitty reality. — Blackbeard

How do you measure the life of one person against the greater good? Can it ever be the right thing to sacrifice an innocent person? And how do you know what the greater good really is? — Amy Engel

I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is a desperately insignificant object. — Robertson Davies

You are ... beyond my imagination. It's a wonder you can be touched at all. — Meredith Duran

Praise God from whom all blessings flow, Praise Him all creatures here below, Praise Him above ye Heavenly Host, Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

The right to privacy has both positive and negative connotations for those who consider themselves part of the natural law tradition. — David Novak

Tawny ports have already spent 20 or 30 years in wood - it's not likely they're going to improve. On the other hand, they're not going to get any worse. — Robert M. Parker Jr.

The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future. — Mary Parker Follett

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet. — Sean Wilentz