Chairetismos Quotes & Sayings

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite. — Elmore Leonard

I do not want to recollect. I should be afraid of preventing the future and of allowing the past to encroach on me. It is out of the utter forgetfulness of yesterday that I create every new hour's freshness. It is never enough for me to have been happy. I do not believe in dead things and cannot distinguish between being no more and never having been. — Andre Gide

God wants to show the advantage of His kingdom to the world, but He will not do this without us — Sunday Adelaja

I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness. — Harold Brodkey

The same rain that drowns the rat will grow the hay. — Amy Grant

He succeeded in staying out of exactly and only those forms of postadolescent trouble that were not winked at, sating himself with those that were. — David Quammen

The man or woman at home who prays often has as much to do with the effectiveness of the missionary on the field, and consequently with the results of his or her labors, as the missionary. — R.A. Torrey

Our bodies are these collections of appetites that veer out of control and habits that drag us down paths we don't want to travel. — John Ortberg