Dismaying Def Quotes & Sayings

At times God will delay granting you relief in order to draw you closer to himself. He might want to teach you just how helpless you really are and how all-sufficient he really is. Sometimes God will allow you to suffer for a season to test and strengthen your faith. — Joe Thorn

Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech. — Dogen

Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility. — Ben Carson

Problems are God's resistance to create spiritual muscles. — Tony Robbins

On the Jellicoe road — Mellina Fanouris

Small things can start us off in new ways of thinking, and I was started off by the postage stamps of our area. — V.S. Naipaul

There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood ... in which large chunks of the day are spent inventing ways to make real life more like a fantasy novel. The other is a book about orcs. — Raj Patel

There are so many different things out there trying to hook our attention, we writers have to be very selective and make certain that it is coming from inside out, not outside in. — Sue Monk Kidd

What you guys want, I'm for. — Dan Quayle