Charles Sweeney Quotes & Sayings

Nothing exists without a purpose. And we humans are subject to the laws of nature just as everything else on earth is. — Caroline Myss

We unlearn the art of speaking well when we cease to speak with God. — John Calvin

It's always at the hour of trouble and confrontation that the missing member aches. — James Baldwin

I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn't know how to speak or be present with my peers. — Heather Matarazzo

Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly. — William Cecil

We're at the end of an era of failed leadership. We have been led by a divider [ Barack Obama] who has sliced and diced the electorate, pitting American against American for political purposes. — Rick Perry

He says, I would walk around the township and I could point them out, which girls had been abused. You could see it in them. There's a luminosity to incest. The taboo is so strong and the damage so great. Luminosity
do you understand? It travels across oceans and down generations. They shine with it. — Emma Brockes

Sabbath is the time set aside to do nothing so that we can receive everything, to set aside our anxious attempts to make ourselves useful, to set aside our tense restlessness, to set aside our media-satiated boredom. Sabbath is the time to receive silence and let it deepen into gratitude, to receive quiet into which forgotten faces and voices unobtrusively make themselves present, to receive the days of the just completed week and absorb the wonder and miracle still reverberating from each one, to receive our Lord's amazing grace. — Eugene H. Peterson

With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths. — Montesquieu

The conclusion, so vexatious to democracy, that wisdom and not popularity qualifies for rule may be forced upon us by the peril in atomic energy. — Richard M. Weaver

I'm never gonna stop the rain by complaining, because I'm free, nothing's worrying me. — B. J. Thomas