Cordoba C7 Quotes & Sayings

Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read. — Frederick Douglass

I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing; for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess much as to himself; and believe much on the strength of weak females. — Saint Augustine

I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them; I like the books they like. — Beth Gutcheon

Always behold
not only your own smile
but also the smile
of someone else's joy — Mario

We both like Marlboro Reds, both eat pastrami and Swiss, and both have holes in our hearts big enough to swallow us whole. What the fuck? — C.M. Stunich

God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. It's the same in religion. — Huston Smith

Never worry about what you are escaping from," he said. "Reserve your anxieties for what you are escaping to. — Michael Chabon

Christianity today is so subnormal that if any Christian began to act like a normal New Testament Christian, he would be considered abnormal — Leonard Ravenhill

I am impressed anew by ... how much the harshness that challenges life is what causes the beauty. Birds fly because they must escape predators and search for food. Trees grow skyward because they compete fiercely with other trees for light. Living things need something to push off of. Each of us needs challenges to give us the right shape. — Carl Safina