Dondon My Mothers Story Quotes & Sayings

Words have always had the power to change the world. — Terry Pratchett

If you smell baby diapers in a wine that smells like strawberries to me, that's OK. The winery isn't putting either in the wine. — Ray Johnson

My primary pastoral work had to do with Scripture and prayer. I was neither capable nor competent to form Christ in another person, to shape a life of discipleship in man, woman or child. That is supernatural work, and I am not supernatural. Mine was the more modest work of Scripture and prayer- helping people listen to God speak to them from the Scriptures and then joining them in answering God as personally and honestly as we could in lives of prayer. This turned out to be slow work. From time to time, impatient with the slowness, I would try out ways of going about my work that promised quicker results. But after a while it always seemed to be more like meddling in these people's lives than helping them attend to God. More often than not I found myself getting in the way of what the Holy Spirit had been doing long before I arrived on the scene, so I would go back, feeling a bit chastised, to my proper work: Scripture and prayer; prayer and Scripture. — Eugene H. Peterson

I can't help but react to the painful realities of the two-tiered society we live in, where the signs of poverty and inequity are everywhere. Almost twenty five percent of our children live at or below the poverty line. We expect the no-option life cycle of the poor to be interrupted by the weak social safety net and then wonder why building more jails doesn't solve the problems. — Peter Yarrow

Words both written and read are my passion. — Leslie Austin

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person. — Helen Rowland

I'm nervous whenever I perform — Adele

The two that is one the one that is all. One to save the world, the other to destroy it. — Michael Scott