Ekklesia Quotes & Sayings

( ... ) she knew this: She was falling for this girl, this beautiful, beautiful girl, and she wanted to fall. She wanted to leap right now, arms spread wide, gravity pulling her down, the wind tearing at her hair. She didn't care if she crashed, as long as Amber crashed with her. — Malinda Lo

People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it. — Junot Diaz

Love wants to enjoy in other ways the human being whom it has enjoyed in bed; it looks forward to having breakfast. — Henry Fairlie

It couldn't be an all-bad world, could it, not with birds who warble and call? Maybe that was the secret - to find the few things that made life just a fraction better, and to focus on those. Bird warbles. Peach fuzz. Puppies barking as if they're full grown dogs. Nothing great, certainly nothing to justify the rest of it, but enough to keep you going. — Shalom Auslander

An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this. — Stephen King

It is always easy to break one's word to oneself. — Giacomo Casanova

That day, my first day on the job, was September 11, 2001! I was actually being recognized by Switzerland the very day that the World Trade Center was hit. — Mercer Reynolds

When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty. — John Buchan

Worship is Political Science 101.
In every worship service, the Christian ekklesia is renewed in her unique story and language, her unique political experience and vocation. Every worship service is a challenge to Caesar, because every Lord's Day we bow to a Man on the throne of heaven, to whom even great Caesar must bow. O'Donovan claims that all political order rests on a people's homage to authority, which is to say, on an act of worship. Every Lord's Day, the Church is reconstituted as a polity whose obedience is owed to Christ, and we are taught to name Jesus as King of kings and Lord of lords. — Peter J. Leithart

The goal of libertarianism is not to permit people to be free, but to make them realize that they don't need anyone's permission to be free. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

In this world of many consequences, people help people to achieve or to fail, take care of whom to trust. — Auliq Ice

Faith is trust in ultimate meaning. — Viktor E. Frankl

All of which raises the question, how did we go from Character to Personality without realizing that we had sacrificed something meaningful along the way? — Susan Cain