Canfora Planta Quotes & Sayings

I say that a Christian congregation can survive and often appear to prosper in the community by the exercise of human talent and without any touch from the Holy Spirit! All that religious activity and the dear people will not know anything better until the great and terrible day when our self-employed talents are burned with fire and only that which was wrought by the Holy Ghost will stand forever! — Aiden Wilson Tozer

It's not that racism doesn't exist. Lots of people in New York, and elsewhere, hate because of color and gender, religion and national origin. It's just that I rarely worry about those things because there's a real world underneath all that nonsense; a world that demands my attention almost every second of the day.
Racism is a luxury in a world where resources are scarce, where economic competition is an armed sport, in a world where even the atmosphere is plotting against you. In an arena like that racism is more of a halftime entertainment, a favorite sitcom when the day is done. — Walter Mosley

How amazing that you can think you are experiencing a profound happening, almost like a miracle
and then you realize that you just made it that way in you mind — Dakota Lane

Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both. — Ruta Sepetys

The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower
Peter — Laurell K. Hamilton

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a confession that we do not have such a prodigious head as is required to answer the question what is happening, that we cannot get on top of what is happening, that we are stuck in the middle of it, in medias res, inter-esse, amazing and bewildered. We cannot soar over what is happening with philosophy's eagle-wings. What's happening has clipped our wings. — John D. Caputo

Well, I think first of all, probably the most fundamental thing is that we are a mixed-signal analog semiconductor company, which, along with some of the other well-known names in the industry, enjoys very good economics. — David Milne

No feeling is final. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Reach what you cannot — Nikos Kazantzakis

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself. — Michel De Montaigne

When she first died, I felt sorry about all the pills I'd given that made her feel so miserable. But now I didn't feel so many regrets. Lynn wanted her life. I thought she was willing to suffer if she could still taste her food, if she could still talk about the sea, if she could still feel a breeze across her face, and even if she still could argue with her crazy sister! — Cynthia Kadohata