Ecclesiastical Sewing Quotes & Sayings

What we love in others we not only awaken in others, but we develop those very things more or less in ourselves. — Christian D. Larson

Broadly speaking, there are only two ways human beings can make an income: ...by contributing to society or they can extract an income from society — Martin Adams

No matter how difficult the trail ... we can take comfort in knowing that others before us have borne life's most grievous trials and tragedies by looking to heaven. — M. Russell Ballard

Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive. — Jennifer Senior

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions. — Marilyn Monroe

Love, then, must be true to the ones we love and to ourselves, and also to its own laws. I cannot be true to myself if I pretend to have more in common than I actually have with someone whom I may like for a selfish and unworthy reason. — Thomas Merton

You're right to say "hold on to" instead of "keep." To keep is presumptuous. To hold means you realize that today it's yours and tomorrow who knows. — Erri De Luca

Before brains there was no color or sound in the universe, nor was there any flavor or aroma and probably little sense and no feeling or emotion. — Roger Wolcott Sperry

[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal grants.' Now that she is in a high-profile and hotly partisan race, it has come out that she also benefited from the moral and financial support of her second - now ex - husband. In the process, though, behavior we would expect and hardly notice in a man is being portrayed as freakish and problematic in a woman. — Liza Mundy

There's clearly a lot of Ludditism, and you see it in all the hysteria about every scientific story. — Richard Dawkins