Chavonna Gough Quotes & Sayings

Prayer does not give me what I want. It pummels my wants, kneads them, stretches them my whole life long, until at the last hour of my life I have learned to want one thing only, the only thing worth having. And so my whole life becomes a hidden sigh, an inarticulate utterance of the Name of God. My death will be my prayer, the sigh by which I give myself up at last into the presence of the Name. Thy — Benjamin Myers

Power has always corrupted, my dear. Even the promise of power. It is a hard thing to look at through the fence for hundreds of years without wondering what it would be like on the other side. — Ally Carter

What Cathy took from her rejection experience was self-doubt. Until this current traumatic hospitalization, Cathy hadn't realized the fear she was carrying around, how burdened she was by it, and how that fear kept her in a mode where she had to continuously prove her value to others and herself. — Robert Kegan

Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge. — Samuel Rutherford

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself. — Charles Dance

The seeds of destruction lie in the definition of "chosen-ness" and can easily blossom into bigotry. It's not inevitable but it needs constant care to avoid. — Toni Morrison