Consistira Quotes & Sayings

Most God-ordained dreams die because we are not willing to do something that seems illogical — Mark Batterson

One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning. — Connie Willis

God is an invention of mankind, an excuse to exist, and to thrive, in a subhuman state. — Ellen Hopkins

People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time. — Joseph Jarman

...this, he thinks, is the true curve of the world - now I glimpse it: all things are blended under the surface like the mass of us were blended in the water, it's the separateness of skin and rock and mind that is the great illusion. We are not discrete; we are not solid. People and things and even cities are meant to flow together, they are meant to connect, and this is why we're always full of longing, the way I long for the girl, and the girl longs for truth, and the truth longs for volume, and volume longs for people to hear it, and people long for - what? - for everything, air, home, violence, chaos, beauty, hope, flight, sight, each other. Always, whether to stroke or maim, each other, above all. — Carolina De Robertis

I learned during the three weeks after my surgery that when you are in rehab, willpower and determination are key. — Peter Kavanagh

The Creator's example of rest is a reason for His not recording the end of the seventh day. The first six days were concluded by the cycle of evening and morning, but the ending of the seventh day is not recorded. For Adam and Eve the seventh day ended as had the previous six days; the cessation of the day, however, is left unspecified to picture the eternal rest that God would provide for His people. — Christopher John Donato

No one wants a reputation as 'the reason the High Prince of Etheria died of heart failure. — Berlin Gunning

Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb. — Pythagoras

To say that we trust in the Lord is still somewhat of the Old Testament. The New Testament is not a matter of trusting but a matter of oneness. If you are one spirit with the Lord you don't need to trust. When you need to trust, that means you are not one spirit with Him. You are separate from Him; He is He and you are you. So one needs to trust in the other. But when you and He are one, there is no need of trusting. Have — Witness Lee

The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution. — Joseph Campbell

When you are in the grips of low self-esteem, it's painful, and it certainly doesn't feel like pride. But I believe that this is the dark, quieter side of pride - thwarted pride. — Edward T. Welch

As we develop new beliefs about who we are, our behavior will change to support the new identity. — Tony Robbins

The World is Very Flat, There is no doubt of that. (Night Thoughts of a tortoise suffering fom insomnia on a lawn) — E.V. Rieu

She had got it into her head that we, her little family, would go on camping trips. Cook freshly caught trout beside a lake where the sun never set. I hope she got there with her drinking. — Jo Nesbo