Dainava Quotes & Sayings

Optimism hopes for the best without any guarantee of its arriving and is often no more than whistling in the dark. Christian hope, by contrast, is faith looking ahead to the fulfillment of the promises of God, as when the Anglican burial service inters the corpse 'in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ.' Optimism is a wish without warrant; Christian hope is a certainty, guaranteed by God himself. Optimism reflects ignorance as to whether good things will ever actually come. Christian hope expresses knowledge that every day of his life, and every moment beyond it, the believer can say with truth, on the basis of God's own commitment, that the best is yet to come. — J.I. Packer

The reason that deadline actually can work very well for you is what it forces you to do is make decisions. — David Allen

Do you suppose that God has any need of our works? What God needs is the resoluteness of our will. — Teresa Of Avila

People do really stupid things while driving. — Astro Teller

Jumps like a black man and grabs coins like a Jew. — Mario Balotelli

The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else. — Michael Pollan

If you really taste a doughnut, it's pretty disgusting. They taste of grease. — Ruth Reichl

Homo sapiens exhibits traits consistent with a long history of polygyny or monogamy, and a relative absence of sperm competition. — Alan F. Dixson

I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in each ofthese works an act of invention, an intellectual step, or short series of steps taken; that act or step is the spiritual act; all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What gets watched, gets done — Don White

Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries. — Alan Hirsch