Delivered From The Elements Quotes & Sayings

By God's grace I can resist the temptation to treat my children as interruptions to my will for my life. Instead, God enables me to treat my children as precious gifts he is using to shape me into his image according to his will for my life. — Gloria Furman

Grabbed a second slice of toast, gaining a slight growl from Tommy in the process. "Do that again and I'll hit you on your nose with a rolled up newspaper," I told him. — Steve McHugh

When you accept the fact that God is determined about you and you add to it your determination about Him, I am telling you there'll be no stopping you from fulfilling the absolutely God-ordained destiny He has for you. — Beth Moore

I don't want to spend my entire life drawing talking heads. It seems like a waste of everyone's time. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Alas! Victor, when falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness? I feel as if I were walking on the edge of a precipice, towards which thousands are crowding, and endeavouring to plunge me into the abyss. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the
thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself could be housed in separate identities life would be relieved of all that was unbearable the unjust might go his way delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path doing the good things in which he found his pleasure and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The faculty and students share ownership of the learning outcomes; the students assume responsibility for their learning, and the faculty assumes responsibility for providing appropriate resources for that learning. — Tina Goodyear

My mind's cries tell me that everything on earth is tragic. My heart's smiles tell me that everything on earth is magic. — Sri Chinmoy

If you have one foot in the past and one foot in the future, you're pissing on the present. — Malachy McCourt

A Christian who is willing to take up arms against another Christian is a Christian who has traded in his membership in the post-Babel communion of saints for membership in a nation governed by refurbished stoicheic values. They have traded in their loyalty to the temple of the Spirit for loyalty to the flesh. Christians who make war against other Christians are Galatians, bewitched by the lure of patriotism, which is simply the lure of flesh. They are no longer in the ranks of the Spirit. — Peter Leithart

The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again. — Dennis C. Blair

The best performance advice I have ever been given was to "Know where your light is, onstage." — Vaginal Davis

Don't plan too hard, because something much better might be out there. — Candy Crowley

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope. — Thomas Merton

If you've got a good job, you should bust your butt to make your company as successful and profitable as possible. — Jason Calacanis

Here is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy. A film with no villains. No fight scenes. No evil adults. No fighting between the two kids. No scary monsters. No darkness before the dawn. A world that is benign. A world where if you meet a strange towering creature in the forest, you curl up on its tummy and have a nap. — Roger Ebert

The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you. — John C. Maxwell