Efters Ndning Quotes & Sayings

The Christian formula for the Trinity - God is one essence in three persons - may seem to be contradictory because we are accustomed to seeing one being as one person. We cannot conceive of how one being could be contained in three persons and still be only one being. To that extent, the doctrine of the Trinity in this formulation is mysterious; it boggles the mind to think of a being who is absolutely one in His essence yet three in person. — R.C. Sproul

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me. — Harrison Birtwistle

When friends tell you how awesome you look, drop the "I still have more to go" crap. You worked hard and you deserve the compliment! — Jillian Michaels

Say your husband wants to start a business creating topiary sculptures for clients. You think the idea is bonkers, but you admire his passion, so it seems cruel to veto it. Instead, set a tripwire. Okay, dear, let's give the topiary-sculpture business a shot, but can we agree that we won't invest more than $10,000 of our savings in it? Alternatively, you might say: Go for it, but if you don't have a paying customer within three months, let's talk seriously about Plan B. — Chip Heath

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations. — Lucy Stone

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone. — Toni Morrison

I went to Europe with Spencer Tracy. What a thrill, working with John Ford when I was a kid. — Robert Wagner

I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way. — Eric Clapton

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. — Wilson Mizner

The heart of man will never find true peace, if it does not empty itself of all that is not God, so as to free itself all free for His love, that He alone may possess the whole of it. But this the soul cannot do of itself; it must obtain it of God by repeated prayers. — Alfonso Maria De Liguori

It was not so much a modification of the darkness, as a sigh of relief, a slight relaxing of tension, so that one felt, rather than saw, that the night had suddenly lost a shade of its density ... ah! yes; there! between these two shoulders of the hills she is bleeding to death. — Hope Mirrlees