Defendre Contre Quotes & Sayings

Circumcision stands for a religion of human achievement, of what man can do by his own good works; Christ stands for a religion of divine achievement, of what God has done through the finished work of Christ. — John Stott

When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environmect or how to rule their world - which is saying the same thing. Human beings destroy their ecology at the same time that they destroy one another. From that perspective, healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal world. — Chogyam Trungpa

The borders between different countries are, in truth, not real. They are a by-product of the ego. — Christopher Dines

Life is what you make of it. I make believe. — Amelia Cole

God doesn't give us tests that we can't pass, and he must have figured I could handle whatever was going to happen. — Thomas A. Middleton

Fuss is reserved for sons. — Rae Carson

Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through genuine, all-out engagement with others that people can polish their character, and help each other to reach greater heights. — Daisaku Ikeda

Welcome back. I see the assassins have failed. — Darynda Jones

There's no such thing as coincidences, only incidences with a twist. — Leanore Elliott

An unhappy childhood is supposed to make you grow up fast, but I still feel like a kid a lot of the time. — Holly Black

Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real. — Hank Azaria

These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough to balance this kind of imagination and the process leading to it - not using violence, not trying to create chaos. — Wadah Khanfar