Crakehall Parish Council Quotes & Sayings

So often, even when we stop to say a blessing before a meal, we're mentally preparing to spoon some pasta or potatoes onto our plates. We're not usually focused on the present moment, simply placing ourselves before our food and entering into the still, slow space where eating is done for eating's sake and not something we do simply to get to the next thing on our list. — Mary DeTurris Poust

Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man. — Saadi

Don't accuse others of your past, hidden guilt and sins." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You — Angelica Hopes

You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it. — Macy Gray

Women are rising. And I think that's all the violence and war - it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually. — Jane Fonda

The mask of secularism may differ in thickness, may be less visible, but religion is always there hidden under hallowed big beautiful words — Nawal El Saadawi

With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides,
flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one
end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist
attacks, Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of
the Pledge of Allegiance? — Jay Leno

It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in. — Ian McEwan

a library shaped by the aspirations and concerns of people who came of age in the late sixties [the collected works of Thoreau, Lopez, Abbey, Ginsberg, Snyder, Kerouac, the entirety of the Foxfire series as well as The Gulag Archipelago, The Tropic of Cancer, a smattering of Gogol, Tolstoy, and Dostoyevsky, The Rubaiyat, The Sand County Almanac, Them] ["The Basement," The Awl, Feb 5, 2015]. — Ariana Kelly

Knowledge and the study of God's Word is voided by the folding of unwilling hands. — Joshua Roman

Friend, God's will is not something that you can find through trial and error. Rather, you discover it through your intimate relationship with Him - through prayer and Bible study as you strive to know Him better. If you have been on a quest to "find God" or "track down His will," stop searching and simply talk to Him. He knows where you are, and He knows exactly where you need to go. No roadmap could promise more. — Charles F. Stanley