Dettman Obituary Quotes & Sayings

Listening begins with being silent. — Joachim-Ernst Berendt

The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith. — John Ortberg

If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath, you would stop and take a breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish. — Elizabeth Prentiss

The designs of men are notoriously subservient to happenstance, hesitation, and haste; but — Amor Towles

But the calm had brought a sort of courage and hope with it. Instead of giving way to thoughts of the worst, he actually found he was trying to believe in better things. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I think forgiveness plays a very important part in Western society and it comes from the Judeo Christian heritage. — Ibn Warraq

If any preposterous bill were brought forward, for giving poor grubbing devils of authors a right to their own property I should like to say, that I for one would never consent to opposing an insurmountable bar to the diffusion of literature among the people ... — Charles Dickens

Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas. — Alexander MacLaren

For millions of Christians, nevertheless, God is no more real than He is to the non-Christian. They go through life trying to love an ideal and be loyal to a mere principle. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control. — Ted Turner