Derfler Quotes & Sayings

When it was to their advantage, they made a forward move; when otherwise, they stopped still. — Anonymous

If pastors become accomplices in treating every child as a problem to be figured out, every spouse as a problem to be dealt with, every clash of wills in choir or committee as a
problem to be adjudicated, we abdicate our most important work, which is directing worship in the traffic, discovering the presence of the cross in the paradoxes and chaos between Sundays, calling attention to the "splendor in the ordinary," and, most of all, teaching a life of prayer to our friends and companions in the pilgrimage. — Eugene H. Peterson

And so the beauty was in being alone; but it was also the pain. — C. JoyBell C.

I was perfect for the circus. If she dared me, I'd do it. Love makes you stupid — Bruno Mars

My integrity means more to me than any fame or money. When I say something, I want people to take it to the bank that I mean it and believe in it. — Tim Tebow

Red lipstick is my armour - I feel it distracts from my hereditary dark circles and gives me an instant psychological lift, no matter what my mood is. — Liz Goldwyn

We are always hungry and never satisfied because we don't trust and won't risk. Can we reach a place where we are satisfied with just enough? You are enough. You have enough. Do not worry about tomorrow. God will provide in our lives just as God provides in the Eucharist. — Mary DeTurris Poust

Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy. — Sharon Salzberg

Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits. — Blaise Pascal

The science of Humboldt is one thing, poetry is another thing. The poet to-day, notwithstanding all the discoveries of science, and the accumulated learning of mankind, enjoys no advantage over Homer. — Henry David Thoreau

The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation. — Jim Yong Kim

That there is a continuous link from humans to gorillas, with the intermediate species merely long dead, is beyond the understanding of speciesists. Tie the label Homo sapiens even to a tiny piece of insensible embryonic tissue, and its life suddenly leaps to infinite, incomputable value ... Self-styled pro-lifers, and others that indulge in footling debates about exactly when in its development a foetus becomes human, exhibit the same discontinuous mentality. Human, to the discontinuous mind, is an absolutist concept. There can be no half measures. And from this flows much evil. — Richard Dawkins