Derber Amazon Quotes & Sayings

[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Sometimes we go so focused on bringing people to the meetinghouse that we forget we are supposed to be bringing them to Christ. — M. Russell Ballard

Solomon'sexcess became an insult upon the privileges of mankind; for by the same plan of luxury, which made it necessary to have forty thousand stalls of horses,
he had unfortunately miscalculated his other wants, and so had seven hundred wives ...
Wise
deluded man! — Laurence Sterne

We got high together, got drunk, got off on saliva and skin, and still found no way to capture this feeling. It was so much bigger than us, so brutal. Even when we fucked as savagely as we could bear it was only the shadow of this thing between us. Killing each other would hint at a fraction of it. I couldn't fuck it out of her, couldn't bleed it out of myself, couldn't purge, drug, numb it away. Like the dark seed in me, this was a drive so deep it was embedded in my core. I had never loved a girl like this. I had never loved. — Leah Raeder

On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace. — Timothy Keller

If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway. — Christine Feehan

Don't be so fond of what you planned that somehow to change it seems like a violation of your own choice and wisdom. It's just the opposite. — Lee Carroll

Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, "This is good enough for you." The audience, thrust into that familiar American mood of knowing something is wrong but not knowing what it is, unconsciously absorbs the insult and projects it back onto the mediocre performer in the form of inattention, rudeness and noise. — Florence King