Contemplatives Of St Quotes & Sayings

The pursuit of things robs me of investing more in the work of Christ. — Jack Hyles

When you look at so much of what we all love, there's either soul-based to it, or it's the blues. It's really the beginnings of any kind of music. It really is; it all starts there. Because after that, it's music of the moment. — Paul Weller

Self love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa. — Karl A. Menninger

Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceilingone afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it. — Mary Blakely

You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God. — C.S. Lewis

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bouldering is like masturbation: not as good as the real thing but you don't need to worry about your protection. — Scott Grimes

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others. — Matthew Simpson

When talking w/kids its not what we say but how we say it! Think about your tone of voice & non-verbal communication.
When talking to my kids I can get them to listen better by not talking down to them, but talking to them at eyeball level — Kevin Heath

I am lucky. I did not choose this life. It chose me. It's strange like that; not picking my path, but rather easing into the water and letting it carry me where it will. Yes, there will be nights where I feel like my destiny is at my fingertips and there will be nights I wish the lights were off and I could just make these sounds in the dark. Still, I will always be there, wherever there might be, staring into blackness hoping the blackness stares back at me. — Andrew McMahon

What? You just got boned by your trainer and minutes later felt the need to say hello to your son? — J.D. Holmes

I was a good lawyer , and most days that was enough. I was aware, however, that I took refuge in my profession, as unlikely as that seemed considering the amount of human suffering I dealt with. It offered me a role to escape into, from what I no longer knew; perhaps nothing more significant than my own little ration of suffering. — Michael Nava

Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology. — Nathan Myhrvold

Kiss the blackest part of my behind. — Kenya Moore