Cbalaw Quotes & Sayings

The kind of true-life writing that is fun to read - that makes an ally of the reader - is the kind that you are so nervous about putting down on paper that you lock the Word file with a secret password and encrypt it - and all of it. — Julie Klausner

Endeavoring to live the Christian life by your own efforts is the greatest single hindrance to walking in the Spirit. — Derek Prince

For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light. — Virginia Woolf

Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years. — Charles Hermite

If you could see for yourself then there'd be no need to lend an ear to what others said. — Koushun Takami

Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means, but as the means to producing a race of free individuals, we have only two alternatives to choose from: either a number of national — Aldous Huxley

God has committed himself, ever since creation, to working through his creatures
in particular, through his image-bearing human beings
but they have all let Him down. — N. T. Wright

(I think I fell in love with you when you were shouting at Romeo and Juliet, 'Don't touch each other!') — Iris Murdoch

We have quoted freely from the Scriptures and have sought to furnish proof-texts for every statement we have advanced. — Arthur W. Pink

Actually solving the puzzles in the book isn't going to improve anyone's writing, but "trying to solve the puzzle" is one way to think about what a lot of us - writers and other artists - do every day. Step one is to recognize the problem, step two is deciding what constraints you want to impose or respect, and step three is finding a pleasing/surprising/exciting solution. — Peter Turchi

No man can tell what he will feel like tomorrow morning; you do not control that. Our business is to do something about these changing moods and not to allow ourselves to become victims of them. — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

There's no better friend than a sister ... — Mary Engelbreit

We tend to believe that attaining power requires force, deception, manipulation, and coercion. Indeed, we might even assume that positions of power demand this kind of conduct - that to run smoothly, society needs leaders who are willing and able to use power this way. As seductive as these notions are, they are dead wrong. Instead, a new science of power has revealed that power is wielded most effectively when it's used responsibly by people who are attuned to, and engaged with the needs and interests of others. — Dacher Keltner