Eikichi Mishina Quotes & Sayings

Since Moses was in Egypt land, Gods people have been struggling for justice while singing freedom songs. Theology can be clarifying. A good sermon has its place. But nothing is more essential for the life of faith in a community than liturgy that invites us to sing the freedom songs that are sung around the throne of God. Brother Ken Sehested is a song leader in that great cloud of witnesses. Receive his words as gift-and keep singing. — Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China. — John Pomfret

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has. — Deborah Tannen

Water, whether still or in motion, has so great an attraction for the lover of nature, that the most beautiful landscape seems scarcely complete without it. There are no effects so fascinating as those produced by the reflexions in nature's living mirror, with their delicacy of form, ever fleeting and changing, and their subtle combinations of colour. — William Montagu-Pollock

When Sister Ibinabo was talking to Christie, with that poisonous spite she claimed was religious guidance, Ifemelu had looked at her and suddenly seen something of her own mother. Her mother was a kinder and simpler person, but like Sister Ibinabo, she was a person who denied that things were as they were. A person who had to spread the cloak of religion over her own petty desires. Suddenly, the last thing Ifemelu wanted was to be in that small room full of shadows. It had all seemed benign before, her mother's faith, all drenched in grace, and suddenly it no longer was. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I just wanted to blame somebody. Makes me feel better.
'But that doesn't solve anything — Haruki Murakami

That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading. — William Faulkner

It's hard to fight when you're in a gazebo. — Mitch Hedberg

There's a crazy, false notion that audiences are not patient or will not watch a story, that you have to put in a scare every ten minutes. But I always thought that was insane. — Eli Roth

If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it. — Sarah Manguso

The proper exegetical principle is this: Mosaic law is still to be enforced, by the church or the State or both, unless there is a specific injunction to the contrary in the New Testament. — Gary North

We don't read to observe the character from a distance. We read to become the character and experience the conflicts and rewards they are experiencing. — Darynda Jones

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government. — Frances Farenthold

The less one knows about oneself, the more one enjoys talking about oneself — Guy Finley