Chickenhearted Quotes & Sayings

How can we have revival when we value a book the early Church didn't have over the Holy Spirit they did have? — Kris Vallotton

Believers are often thought of as people who have some kind of private conviction or repudiation of something, whereas "the faithful" refers to a relationship, which was also incidentally the earlier sense of "faith" in premodern, preliberal Christianity. This is not to say, incidentally, that "faith" refers simply to external behavior as opposed to internal belief but that it refers to an act. — Talal Asad

Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature, in which Scythians and Ethiopians and Indians dwell. What is echo, what are light and shade, day and night, ocean and stars, earthquake and eclipse, there? The works of man are everywhere swallowed up in the immensity of nature. The AEgean Sea is but Lake Huron still to the Indian. — Henry David Thoreau

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. — Bill Cosby

Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it ... — Dean Koontz

I loved him so much, loved his fearlessness, his strength, even the ambition that would someday take him away from me. — Lisa Kleypas

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife. — Queen Victoria

If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer. — Rosalynn Carter

Sally - Those fucking dickless - okay, maybe not that - lily-livered, spineless, impotent - okay, not that either - chickenhearted, dim-witted, gutless Doms. — Cherise Sinclair

You are the future and don't waste your energy peeking into your past — Sadashivan Nair

We must beat the Gospel into peoples' heads incessantly because it's the one thing we're prone to forget. — Martin Luther

I have to hear this all the time in England: "Well, all Americans are fat and stupid, mm-hm-hm-hm-hm." Really? Well, thanks for sending over the best and brightest to start the party. Maybe we can send a few freaky, Texas, militia, hate-group, gun-toting weirdoes back to your country. — Greg Proops

I embarked on a campaign of honey and kindness, which, if you've never tried it, is very hard to do with someone who thinks you are chickenhearted and has in the past called you a poxy sluggard. It is especially hard if every day you are plagued with fear about what might happen next. — Laurie Halse Anderson

There is nothing surprising in a Muslim or a Pathan like me subscribing to the creed of nonviolence. It is not a new creed. It was followed fourteen hundred years ago by the Prophet all the time he was in Mecca. — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan