Cavalete Quotes & Sayings

Those who have trusted where they ought not,
will surely mistrust where they ought not.
-Marie von Ebnuer-Eschenbach — Aleatha Romig

A fate is not a punishment. — Albert Camus

Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God. — Martin Luther

The Exile In July 587 BCE, Babylonian soldiers broke through Jerusalem's walls, ending a starvation siege that had lasted well over a year. They burned the city and Solomon's temple and took its king and many other leaders to Babylon as captives, leaving others to fend for themselves in the destroyed land. Many surrounding countries disappeared altogether when similar disasters befell them. But Judah did not. Instead, the period scholars most often call the "Babylonian exile" inspired religious leaders to revise parts of Scripture that had been passed down to them. It also sparked the writing of entirely new Scriptures and the revision of ideas about God, creation, and history. Much of what is called the Hebrew Scriptures or Old Testament was written, edited, and compiled during and after this national tragedy. — Walter Brueggemann

The glittery feeling. She'd named it because it felt to her as if her skin and everything beneath it briefly became shiny and jumpy and bubbly, as if glitter materialized inside her, then rose quickly through the layers of tissue that comprised her, momentarily sparkling all over the surface of her skin before dissipating into the air. Martha — Kevin Henkes

Charity is the secret weapon Jesus Christ places in our hands, the only thing that can assure us of victory.
The first on to use it will win. — Marcial MacIel

Life will pay any price you ask of it. — Tony Robbins

President Obama's friend and counselor Ta-Nehisi Coates, from his perch atop the bestseller lists and at the pinnacle of power in America, denounces the American Dream, in terms that echo Obama's previous spiritual guide, Pastor Wright in Chicago, as a genocidal weight of whiteness. — George Gilder

I have jeggings to wear and worlds to conquer. — Rachel Sklar

We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us. — Patricia Ireland

Augustus: "I can still dominate your blind ass at Counterinsurgence,"
Isaac: "I'm pretty sure all asses are blind, — John Green

As soon as he reached home, Geppetto took his tools and began to cut and shape the wood into a Marionette. — Carlo Collodi

What Microsoft is really good at is endlessly iterating and revving - incrementally improving things that already exist - and those things that already exist are generally acquired from the outside. — Alan Cooper

It is a mere truism to say that every nation, whether in America or anywhere else, which desires to maintain its freedom, its independence, must ultimately realize that the right of such independence cannot be separated from the responsibility of making good use of it. — Theodore Roosevelt