Defendre Une Quotes & Sayings

A case can certainly be made that Christians bear a major responsibility for our ecological crisis. But the fault is not their biblical but their unbiblical view of nature. Christians have long failed to understand what the Bible really teaches concerning nature and our responsibility for it. For this there is no excuse. Repentance must be our first response. Our second response must then be to right the wrongs of our faulty understanding and act accordingly. We are all responsible to know what can be known of God's will for nature, and we are then responsible to act on that knowledge. — James W. Sire

Lyra, Cassiopeia the queen, whiplash Scorpius with the twin stings in his tail, all the friendly childhood patterns that had twinkled me to sleep from the glow-in-the-dark planetarium stars on my bedroom ceiling back in New York. Now, transfigured - cold and glorious like deities with their disguises flung off - it was as if they'd flown through the roof and into the sky to assume their true, celestial homes. — Donna Tartt

I'm not a rebel. I was sent here to protect, not to harm. — Michelle Frost

If some people see angels where others only see empty space, let them paint the angels; only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic. — John Ruskin

She [then nine-year-old daughter Emily] grew up with 'The Rhythm is Gonna Get You,' Well ... It got her! — Gloria Estefan

What does agonizical mean?" she asks. I hold up my hands like it's obvious. "To be consumed with shock and denial at unrequited love from the man who is supposed to be your soul mate, — Katie Kacvinsky

Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.' — Caroline Knapp

Her outfit looked like it been picked by a kindergartner - red sneakers, yellow tights, and a green tank dress. Perhaps she was on her way to a costume party dressed as a traffic light. — Rick Riordan

I needed a space suit the way a pig needs a pipe organ. — Robert A. Heinlein

A true community maximizes the potential of whatever human resources exist within it (by allowing for all possible combinations), while networks minimize such utilization, since it's limited by each individual's capacity to absorb unsettling stimuli (new combinations). — Philip Slater

It's not your perfection that makes you an angel; it's your intention. — Alberto Agraso And Mony Dojeiji

The spark of light in the soul is beginning of self awareness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

[Barack] Obama is a radical communist and I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it is coming true. He is going to destroy this country and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist. — Alan Keyes