Debrouwer Quotes & Sayings

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. — Thomas Paine

The pain that's created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Because if you don't begin to work on those ideas that God has blessed you with, they will become stagnant inside of you and eventually begin to eat away at you. You might seem OK on the outside, but inside you will be ill from not getting those ideas out of your heart and into the world. Stalling leads to sickness. But taking steps, even baby steps, always leads to success. — Russell Simmons

This is the spirit of prayer
sincere, humble, believing, submissive. Other prayer than this the Bible does not require
God will not accept. — Gardiner Spring

So you see, the real question isn't how I left this world to go to the woods.
It's how I made myself come back. — Jodi Picoult

Stars open among the lilies.
Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?
This is the silence of astounded souls. — Sylvia Plath

I'm going to include a self-help item here that is completely unrelated to this topic. I want you to eat some vegetables. — Phil Ebiner

I would not trust a mouse to a woman if a man's judgment could be had. — Elizabeth Gaskell

I feel the president is ignoring the opinion of many in the U.S. and alienating the rest of the world. My comments were made in frustration, and one of the privileges of being an American is you are free to voice your own point of view. — Natalie Maines

As a result of Christ's salvific work, man exists on earth with the hope of eternal life and holiness. And even though the victory over sin and death achieved by Christ in his Cross and Resurrection does not abolish temporal suffering from human life, nor free from suffering the whole historical dimension of human existence, it nevertheless throws a new light upon this dimension and upon every suffering: the light of salvation. — Pope John Paul II

A word of forgiveness, not to mention love, goes a long way toward healing the soul. — Diane Owens Prettyman

When I was a young fellow, I used to learn the dialogue backwards. The point is that in a conversation between two people, you can't have already made the decisions about what you're gonna do. You gotta be very light on your feet. That leads you into areas where conversations can have a much bigger, grander meaning. — Russell Crowe

I listen to music a lot on the treadmill - I would test 'Raditude' songs out on the treadmill. — Rivers Cuomo

There is not ultimate breakthrough; what we find in the development of a creative life is an open-ended series of provisional breakthroughs. In this journey there is no endpoint, because it is the journey into the soul. — Stephen Nachmanovitch