Efforting Outreach Quotes & Sayings

Life is fragile, she heard Maggie saying, we never know what's waiting around the corner. — Hazel Gaynor

Ah, yes. That. The sin of being happy or excited. According to my father, we must guard carefully against such things. According to my father, these emotions are the equivalent of dancing on out fifth-floor window ledge. Clearly inviting a nasty fall. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

Your own forefathers killed to have and hold the land where you were born, and sought to extinguish the memories and souls of those that were slain. What of those who prayed in the mountains of Appalachia for thousands of years? That to me is an abomination, although it is the way of men. — Bruce Lee Bond

The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate a work of art, we must bring with us nothing from life, no knowledge of its affairs and ideas, no familiarity with its emotions. — Clive Bell

Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is - and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity. — Harlan Coben

What an honourable thing is it to be fishers of men! How great an honour shouldst thou esteem it, to be a catcher of souls! We are workers together with God, says the apostle. If God has ever so honoured thee, O that thou knewest it, that thou mightst bless his holy name, that ever made such a poor fool as thee to be a co-worker with him. God has owned thee to do good to those who were before caught. O my soul, bless thou the Lord. Lord, what am I, or what is my father's house, that thou hast brought me to this? — Thomas Boston

When a child enters your life it's time to learn [not time to teach]. — Jaggi Vasudev

I'm just the same age I've always been. — Carolyn Wells

Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder. — H. Richard Niebuhr

All other societies die finally and with dignity. We die daily. We are always being born again with almost indecent obstetrics. — G.K. Chesterton

Every shuttle mission's been successful. — Christa McAuliffe

I dislike his talk; it goes against my grain to hear him speak so contemptuously of cobblers. They made as good soldiers as the finer folk, anyway. Adolf Bethke was a cobbler, for that matter,
and he knew a sight more about war than a good many majors. It was the man that counted with us, not his occupation. — Erich Maria Remarque