Edificare Dex Quotes & Sayings

The often repeated delight that families express in recognizing and experiencing togetherness is wholly contained by the way the pleasure of a collective experience is produced by consumption and reinforces consumerism. — Susan Willis

In our society, it is psychological murder to deprive a man of a job ... you are in substance saying to that man You have no right to exist. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The beginning of prayer is silence. If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks. And to be able to see that silence, to be able to hear God we need a clean heart; for a clean heart can see God, can hear God, can listen to God; and then only from the fullness of our heart can we speak to God. But we cannot speak unless we have listened, unless we have made that connection with God in the silence of our heart. — Mother Teresa

If you truly love someone, you should be more interested in keeping them happy than in being right. — Stephen Richards

When we don't fund Child Protective Services, there are consequences for all of us. Violence manifests itself. Mental health services in Texas are extremely poor. The answer is not to wait until they do something to get them help. — David Atwood

Silence, when correctly timed, can speak multitudes of words to a person, without any extra effort on your part. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Eighty-two years later, the sound of her crying still haunts me. If only I had paid closer attention to why she was crying instead of simply trying to quiet her. If only I had paid closer attention. — Christina Baker Kline

Not so long ago, I visited relatives in Italy.

I took a daytime stroll to the famous (infamous) Roman Coliseum, and marveled at the engineering feat to build such a magnificent structure.

Being a Christian, I was suddenly thunderstruck at the thought of how many Christians perished in some of the most cruel way possible, some torn limb to limb by starved lions, simply because they refused to denounce Jesus Christ as their savior.
Yet here in America, a land blessed by God ( a ragtime army of patriots defeat one of the most powerful standing armies in the world) and founded on religious freedom, we allow them to remove prayer from the schools, remove nativity scenes from our cities and towns and abort millions of children.
Where's the outrage?
What has happened to us?
Jim Balzotti — Jim Balzotti

The hearts that love will know never winter's frost and chill. Summer's warmth is in them still. — Eben E. Rexford

A constant ongoing joke among the people that I travel with is my absolutely hopeless sense of direction. I'm able to get lost a half an hour from camp. I don't know how I do this. — Tim Cahill

The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world. — Cornel West

I haven't done the profoundly impactful work many TED speakers have. — Cameron Russell

Hammond turned to Gennaro. "You know, of course, what Dr. Grant and Dr. Sattler do. They are paleontologists. They dig up dinosaurs." And then he began to laugh, as if he found the idea very funny. — Michael Crichton

It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest. — Philip Sidney