Covenanted Civil Services Quotes & Sayings

sometimes the best way to get out of a slump is to get a good hump!" "Yes! — R.S. Grey

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred. — Barbara De Angelis

New beatitudes came from him [Bobby]: "Blessed are those who live in hovels, for God will give them palaces in heaven."
He gave them new commandments:
"God weeps when anyone kills in his name; kill not.
"God hates hate; hate not.
"God loves love; love more.
"You need not trust in God; you need hope that God will trust in you.
"You are your own master. The way is within you. — Randy Attwood

But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard. — Frederick Pollock

Set a goal, measure it, change if you need to, keep going after the goal, — Rick Scott

The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in, a large section of our economy would collapse. — Gustav Stresemann

His football does not seem to suffer by all of this going on around him. You look at his passing and he makes it look so simple. When he passes the ball, it always seems to go where he wants it to go. That sounds simple, but believe me, it is not.
(on David Beckham) — Graham Taylor

The truth that is variously enacted by such agents is not an idea or a proposition. It is rather a habit of life that simply (!) refuses the totalizing claims of power. The governor, on behalf of the empire, will continue to ask, "What is truth?" And the apostles will continue to give answer, uncommonly unintimidated: "'We must obey God rather than any human authority'" (Acts 5:29).14 — Walter Brueggemann

In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation ... as music. — Roy H. Williams

Why is grief, when inspired by certain types of loss, considered something to surmount, to get over, while when inspired by other types of loss it's given a pass, allowed and even encouraged to go on forever? — Ron Currie Jr.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. — Benjamin Franklin

Elena had always felt like the center of her own world - who doesn't? The world arranged itself around her like petals around the stem of a flower. This way the meadows, that way the woodland. Over here, the baryn's estate, out there, the hills that hug the known world close and imply a world at beyond. She could never come up with the edge of a world, because it always kept going on beyond. She moved the center of the world as she walked. The world was balanced on her head. — Gregory Maguire

I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures. — Geddy Lee