Everlastingly Yours Alexander Quotes & Sayings

We must fight for the freedom of religion; because that is the only way we can stand against irrationality. — M.F. Moonzajer

When the mind, for want of being sufficiently reduced by recollection at our first engaging in devotion, has contracted certain bad habits of wandering and dissipation, they are difficult to overcome, and commonly draw us, even against our wills, to the things of the earth.
I believe one remedy for this is to confess our faults, and to humble ourselves before God. I do not advise you to use multiplicity of words in prayer: many words and long discourses being often the occasions of wandering. Hold yourself in prayer before God, like a dumb or paralytic beggar at a rich man's gate. Let it be your business to keep your mind in the presence of the Lord. If it sometimes wander and withdraw itself from Him, do not much disquiet yourself for that: trouble and disquiet serve rather to distract the mind than to re-collect it: the will must bring it back in tranquility. If you persevere in this manner, God will have pity on you. — Brother Lawrence

Just look inside and you will find just what you can do. — Herman Cain

My hope is that the 21st century will be the first century where there will be no violation of human rights, and to that end, Japan would like to do our outmost. — Shinzo Abe

You have to be very careful when you're working on a sequel, because it has to be a continuation of what you did before. — Hideo Kojima

I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook. — Jaron Lanier

You suckers do realize that anyone can add a quote, right? — James Carville

But democrats are seldom welcome on planets run by totalitarian governments, and scarcely more welcome on planets where anarchy prevails--this is due to the very nature of democracy, the only practical compromise between totalitarianism and anarchy. — Christopher Stasheff

It is more gratifying to bask in praise for courageously protesting the abuses of official enemies: a fine activity, but not the priority of a value-oriented intellectual who takes the responsibilities of that stance seriously. — Noam Chomsky

These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life. — Alice Sebold

The number of realists who are betting that both the 'economy gets healthy soon' and this government gets spending under control is a tiny group, indeed. — Bob Beauprez

Good! Hang in there! It's normal! [Low self-esteem] Often it's a sign of intelligence (but don't let that go to your head haha) — Patrick Stump