Execrating Pain Quotes & Sayings

Thinking for the Sake of Global Faithfulness: Encountering Islam with the Mind of Christ THABITI ANYABWILE — John Piper

Being American is not a matter of birth. We must practice it every day, lest we become something else. — Malcolm Wallop

Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love. — Robert Pollok

I have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously lucky. — David Rakoff

What good are the works of all men, and all the pains of the martyrs, in comparison with the pains of the Son of God dying on the Cross, so that there was not a drop of His precious blood, but it was all shed for your sins. If you could properly evaluate this incomparable price, you would throw all your ceremonies, vows, works, and merits into the ash can. What awful presumption to imagine that there is any work good enough to pacify God, when to pacify God required the invaluable price of the death and blood of His own and only Son? — Martin Luther

Good evening," Evie murmured, taking a place at the table beside Sebastian. She smiled as she glanced up at him. "Are you clever with numbers, my lord?"
"I've always thought so," Sebastian replied ruefully, "until now. Rohan ... are the other croupiers adept with probability calculations?"
"Adept enough, my lord. They are well-trained. They all know how to tempt a player to make wagers to the house's advantage, how to identify a good player from a bad one ... "
"Trained by whom?" Evie asked.
Cam's grin was a flash of startling white in his honey-skinned face. "By me, of course. No one understands gaming as well as I."
Smiling, Evie glanced up at her husband. "All he lacks is confidence," she remarked dryly. — Lisa Kleypas

Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of ideas into thoughts. — Henry Sweet

I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality. — Annabelle Selldorf

He was simply undeveloped compared to teammates who had grown up in the American West, linking 60 mph carved turns at Sun Valley or Crystal Mountain. — Nathaniel Vinton

You see, I don't think age matters so much as people think. Parts of me are still 12 and I think other parts were already 50 when I was 12 ... . — C.S. Lewis

I make films about people with disabilities as well and I think this question is more relevant in regards to these documentaries where the actual person appears on film. I know these people are proud of who they are and what they are doing with their lives. — Arthur Bradford

Dolgan: 'Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when 'tis achieved.
Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly. — Raymond E. Feist

Wealth
the most excellent of all gods. — Aristophanes

My head was spinning. I felt like I'd been drifting, lost at sea all my life, and now that I'd found dry land, I couldn't quite get my bearings. — Carolee Dean

Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way home from school. — Ann Hood