Conf Quotes & Sayings

It is easy to create a memory, but it is almost impossible to forget. — Debasish Mridha

I'm a feminist at heart, and I'm totally aware of why people have an issue with this show. — Jamie Dornan

If we are to believe he is really alive with all that that implies, then we have to believe without proof. And of course that is the only way it could be. If it could be somehow proved, then we would have no choice but to believe. We would lose our freedom not to believe. And in the very moment that we lost that freedom, we would cease to be human beings. Our love of God would have been forced upon us, and love that is forced is of course not love at all. Love must be freely given. Love must live in the freedom not to love; it must take risks. Love must be prepared to suffer even as Jesus on the Cross suffered, and part of that suffering is doubt. — Frederick Buechner

They've really got to recognize that all of us bring some of our family issues to work and our work home. — James Levine

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate. — Henry Ward Beecher

I did live over in the U.K. for a while, so I guess I'm just naturally a Brit at heart. — Kelly Rowland

There reigns in the broken human heart a feeling of discord, a lack of congruence between what is and what ought to be (Augustine, Conf. 5). — Thomas C. Oden

Let's see what's going on over in Iraq. A Burger King has opened up and prostitutes are back on the street of Baghdad after 20 years. Fast food and hookers - they are truly living the American Dream. — David Letterman

My sister has the heart of an artist with a hatchet and an eye patch. And I, we both now know, have a heart that is undeniably, irreparably different. — Jackson Pearce

Pride dies 20 minutes after death. — Saint Francis De Sales

Deep, hearty, clean and compassionate laughter is vitamin-tastic fuel for the soul. — Ethel Russell-Ajisomo

No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf) — Jeffrey R. Holland

Anything that's really grounded in humanity and is real, but just happens to be faux pas, or just really shouldn't be funny, I like it. — Rockmond Dunbar

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did. — Jodi Picoult

The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and traditions is to keep us in touch with the obvious errors. — Eugene H. Peterson

Most of the things that are supposed to be so objectionable in books are things that every teenager, in the United States, not only knows, but has talked about at length in school, or on the way home from school. — Bennett Cerf

Human personality is created with the restless yearning for communion with the unseen but present personal God (Augustine, Conf. 1.1). — Thomas C. Oden