Darrell Sheets Quotes & Sayings

Although claiming my true identity as a child of God, I still live as though the God to whom I am returning demands an explanation. I still think about his love as conditional and about home as a place I am not yet fully sure of. While walking home, I keep entertaining doubts about whether I will be truly welcome when I get there. As I look at my spiritual journey, my long and fatiguing trip home, I see how full it is of guilt about the past and worries about the future. I realize my failures and know that I have lost the dignity of my sonship, but I am not yet able to fully believe that where my failings are great, 'grace is always greater.' Still clinging to my sense of worthlessness, I project for myself a place far below that which belongs to the son, (p. 52). — Henri J.M. Nouwen

In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back. — Vandana Shiva

Noah's eyes fixed on his, and the vulnerability Cameron saw there tightened his chest until it was almost too hard to say it. — K.A. Mitchell

This is hell - the absolute loss borne from all those slivers of perfection that passed unnoticed, unrelished. In true dark, there is no gauging of time. — Blake Crouch

I'd rather do one day on a really cool movie than six months on something crap. — Domhnall Gleeson

"The person next to me meditates better than I do. They're purer." - This is the ego feeling sorry for itself. — Frederick Lenz

Our work is to keep our hearts open in hell. — Stephen Levine

It is a fair question whether the results of these things have induced among us in a large class of well-to-do people, with little muscular activity, a habit of excessive eating [particularly fats and sweets] and may be responsible for great damage to health, to say nothing of the purse. — Wilbur Olin Atwater

Abnormally good or abnormally bad conditions do not last forever. — Benjamin Graham

Through it all, despite it all, Eddie privately adored his old man, because sons will adore their fathers through even the worst behavior. It is how they learn devotion. Before he can devote himself to God or a woman, a boy will devote himself to his father, even foolishly, even beyond explanation. — Mitch Albom

The devil has no power ... except in the dark. — Cassandra Clare

I think Christina Aguilera is great; I would love to work with her. — Lindsay Lohan