Farstad Quotes & Sayings

Moses, without any mercy, breaks all bruised reeds, and quenches all smoking flax. For the law requires personal, perpetual and perfect obedience from the heart, and that under a most terrible curse, but gives no strength. It is a severe task master, like Pharaoh's, requiring the whole tale ofbricks and yet giving no straw. Christ comes with blessing after blessing, even upon those whom Moses had cursed, and with healing balm for those wounds which Moses had made. — Richard Sibbes

Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem. — Trent Lott

I always felt that organized religion was just basically a theological insurance scam where they're saying if you spend time with us, guess what, you're going to live forever, you're going to go to some other plain where you're going to be so happy, you'll just be happy all the time, which is also kind of a scary idea to me. — Stephen King

Of course women's walking is often construed as performance rather than transport, with the implication that women walk not to see but to be seen, not for their own experience but for that of a male audience, which means that they are asking for whatever attention they receive. — Rebecca Solnit

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen. — James Stephens

True karate is this: that in daily life one's mind and body be trained and developed in a spirit of humility, and that in critical times, one be devoted utterly to the cause of justice. — Gichin Funakoshi

Animals not only make music, they hear it in unique fashion. — Mitch Albom

If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about. — Thomas R. Cech

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority. — Shirley Hazzard

His [the President's] earnest desire is, that you may perpetuated and preserved as a nation; and this he believes can only be doneand secured by your consent to remove to a country beyond the Mississippi ... Where you are, it is not possible you can live contented and happy. — Andrew Jackson

If one as source is accurate... all is about the pattern... so let's follow the pattern. — Deyth Banger

Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement ... — Jack Kornfield