Encntr For Obs Quotes & Sayings

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

If you feel like talking, you talk, if you don't, you don't — Corey Taylor

No, don't blush, with your hair it makes you look like a pomegranate. — George R R Martin

Her spirit flew out into the night
And the sky reached down
And drew her up,
And she was filled with light ...
And she is happy. — Audrey Niffenegger

ignited and sustained by God. Indwelling sin provides us with marvelous proof of God's sustaining grace. — Tony Reinke

God's judgment echoes the sound of hoofbeats, but God's love quietly convicts. — Billy Graham

A moose tried to eat us, Hearth signed. "Excuse me?" I asked. "A moose?" Hearth grunted in exasperation. He spelled out: D-E-E-R. Same sign for both animals. "Oh, that's much better," I said. "A deer tried to eat you. — Rick Riordan

How much more so when it comes to the deep truths of the Christian faith. God loves you; you matter to him. That is a fact, stated as a proposition. I imagine most of you have heard it any number of times. Why, then, aren't we the happiest people on earth? It hasn't reached our hearts. Facts stay lodged in the mind, for the most part. They don't speak at the level we need to hear. Proposition speaks to the mind, but when you tell a story, you speak to the heart. We've been telling each other stories since the beginning of time. It is our way of communicating the timeless truths, passing them down. And that's why when Jesus comes to town, he speaks in a way that will get past all our intellectual defenses and disarm our hearts. He tells a certain kind of story. — John Eldredge

She wasn't born in the normal way. She was literally born from
thoughts. Her children are born the same way. When Athena falls in love with a mortal man, it's purely intellectual, the way she loved Odysseus in the old stories. It's a meeting of minds. She would tell you that's the purest kind of love. — Rick Riordan

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience. — Robert Wyatt

It is now obvious to us all that he has every objection," said Randall. "You know, you had very much better withdraw, my dear aunt. I feel sure that Uncle Henry's double life is going to be exposed. My own conviction is that he has been keeping a mistress for years."
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Mrs. Lupton flushed. "You forget yourself, Randall. I am not going to stand here and see my husband insulted by your ill-bred notions of what is funny."
"Oh, I wasn't insulting him," said Randall. "Why shouldn't he have a mistress? I am inclined to think that in his place -as your spouse, my dear Aunt Gertrude- I should have several. — Georgette Heyer

To believe whatever is said without investigating the truth behind them is the ultimate stupidity of all the majority in all the eras! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

At length, in depth, their spirited exchange culminated in a mutual exclaim of Party understanding. — Adam Johnson

The game's the thing. That's why people tune in. They don't tune in to hear an announcer. — Ernie Harwell

Write the way you want to, not the way you think you should. — Nicola J. McDonagh