Dietert Sand Quotes & Sayings

Remember," cried Willoughby, "from whom you received the account. Could it be an impartial one? I acknowledge that her situation and character ought to have been respected by me. I do not mean to justify myself, but at the same time cannot leave you to suppose that I have nothing to urge
that because she was injured, she was irreproachable, and because I was a libertine, she must be a saint ... — Jane Austen

Being a Christian doesn't mean that our struggles are necessarily different from those of non-Christians; it's just that our solution to the struggles is different. — Bobby Richardson

I do think that there is a hunger in the land for a vision of confessional Christianity that is robust, God-centered, tough-minded, able to address today and tomorrow and the next day, and comprehensive. — D. A. Carson

Our Lord mentions may be a competitive relationship. I may prefer to belong to my mother, or to my wife, or to myself; then says Jesus, you cannot be My disciple. This does not mean I will not be saved, but it does mean that I cannot be "His. — Oswald Chambers

God knows all that is done in the most secret caverns of the heart. No place is deprived of his presence. — Stephen Charnock

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet. — Samuel Beckett

I'm constantly searching for ways to do better because I believe life is an evolution. It's not about reaching an end goal and hanging up your hat ... It's about continually growing. — Bobbi Brown

One pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled — Phyllis Bottome

Maybe the trick is not to define yourself as a container for your experiences, your thoughts. Maybe it's to assume you are larger than the things you have felt over a series of years, that your history is not a list of things your body has done or been present for, that your family is not people who you spent a lot of time around as a child or carry your genetic code. Maybe the trick is to push violently at your own boundaries, to find your own contradictions, and use your teeth and nails to destroy what separates you from something else.

I am trying. — Jessa Crispin

Every generation that comes from this family has to do better than the last. — Tinie Tempah

Peruse all the sermons of Jesus and you will be sure to find parables, and sometimes allegory. What you will always find, however, is something of keeping our hearts in order. — Jerome Strong

She had him completely lost. He couldn't focus on work. He couldn't eat. All he wanted was to be with her again. To be inside her. Waking up to Lily had been like a dream and he wanted more. — Lynette Lee

I don't really know the person who wrote the things I wrote. I kind of know him, but I change so much all the time that it's like I start fresh over and over and over and over. Writing-wise and life-wise. — Jonathan Ames

How can the heart travel to Allah when it is chained by its desires — Ibn Arabi