Christians For Social Action Quotes & Sayings

I navigate through the world with the excitement and determination of a child. That's why I'm an artist. I'd die without an outlet for expression. Unfortunately, more often than not, that childlike energy is the maturity level I bring to many circumstances. — Kurt Sutter

Is there any finer phrase in the English language than Midsummer Day? There are no words to touch it for conjuring. It is the beginning of blooming roses and ripening corn, of days that stretch on, reaching for midnight until the spangled blue velvet of night descends and beginning again before cockcrow, when the dew jewels the grass like diamonds scattered while the earth slumbers. I, of course, expected rain. Not just rain, but torrential, heaving, biblical rain - the sort to set arks afloat. Everything else had gone awry, why not that? But when I awoke on Midsummer Day, the sun greeted me cordially, coaxing the dew from the grass and the early roses as a light breeze wafted the scent of charred chimney over the gardens. I stood at the window and breathed in deeply all the scents of summer, fresh grass and carp ponds and blossoming herb knots until the whole of it mingled in my head and made me dizzy. A bee floated lazily in the window and out again as if beckoning me to follow. — Deanna Raybourn

A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive. — G.K. Chesterton

I wanted to write a book that would leave open many riddles and mysteries, even to me. Of course in some cases I do know the answers, but in many others I don't know and don't want to know. — Daniel Kehlmann

[The Dalai Lama ] says Western traditions can teach Tibetans a lot about social action, and he thinks some Christians are very good at that. — Pico Iyer

On popular issues like poverty and slavery, where Christians are likely to be applauded for our social action, we are quick to stand up and speak out. Yet on controversial issues like homosexuality and abortion, where Christians are likely to be criticized for our involvement, we are content to sit down and stay quiet. — David Platt

Having the best product means nothing if the people won't buy it. — Donald A. Norman

You saved my life today, with your boyish skills. He gave her another one of his wry half smiles that made her insides flutter. — Melanie Dickerson

The course made me think a bit, you know. That we're smart enough to get out of here. We're just too stupid to work out a way. — Cath Crowley

It was hard to let go of love. Once woven, its ribbon was hard to tear, and this one she'd woven quite firmly herself. — Cornelia Funke

The true exercise of freedom is - cannily and wisely and with grace - to move inside what space confines - and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted. — A.S. Byatt

Those who happen to have the right talents-should be economists and statesmen, and that all economists and statesmen should be Christians, and that their whole efforts in politics and economics should be directed 'Do as you would be done by' into action. If that happened and if we others were really ready to take it, then we should find the Christian solution for our own social problems pretty quickly. — C.S. Lewis

Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics. — George Smoot

Don't give up the search for happiness because you're afraid of getting hurt. — Martha Raye