City Of Embers Quotes & Sayings

The apostles were very sure that everything of theirs which had to do with salvation was a gift to them from God. 'Increase our faith' (Lk. 17:5). They did not presume that the fullness of faith would come to them merely because they freely opted for it. They believed, rather, that it was a gift of God which would have to be granted to them. — John Cassian

I went my whole life without winning anything and now all of a sudden after years of hard work my dreams were coming true all at once and I didn't know how to deal with it. It felt like the world was changing its relationship with me but I had stayed the same. — Adi Shankar

It wasn't so much that I was all alone on stage, but it was the realization of how much you need the response-you need the audience to tell you where to go. — Loretta Swit

Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you'll be fine. — John Eldredge

The minute you think you're safe is the same minute you're fucked. — Bennett Madison

Other unsolved murders or untimely deaths were readily blamed on the supposedly sinister Jews: If a Jewish doctor failed to save a life, the whole Jewish community might be attacked and fined. — Robert Winder

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. — Edgar Allan Poe

We say knowledge is the basic foundation of the universe. Everything is first based on something being known. — RZA

Do you want to hold her?" Ronan asked. — Maggie Stiefvater