Cecilian Academy Quotes & Sayings

People were flattered to be asked about themselves and if she said nothing after they spoke, it made them say more. They were conditioned to fill silences. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Do not believe everything you think or that you believe. — Tom Cunningham

By God's design, he has wired his children for spiritual reproduction. He has woven into the fabric of every single Christian's DNA a desire and ability to reproduce. — David Platt

The immediate effect of the deficit is to make you feel good, like when you go on a trip and pay later. You feel good, and then you get a hangover. The deficit makes you feel good - until you pay later. — Franco Modigliani

It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create. — Leo Tolstoy

To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him. — C.S. Lewis

Health and beauty. What next? Look, kid, I make wine, not skin cream. — Nora Roberts

I think, for the writer, rather as for the priest, there isn't such a thing as success. — Graham Greene