Ferman Dodge Quotes & Sayings

The holy dark over the manger gives way to the heinous dark over the Messiah and the slamming hammer and the tearing vein and the piercing thorn - the created murdering the Creator. The Cross stands as the epitome of evil. And God takes the greatest evil ever known to humanity and turns it into the greatest Gift you have ever known. "If the worst things work for good to a believer, what shall the best things?" writes Puritan Thomas Watson. "Nothing hurts the godly . . . all things . . . shall co-operate for their good, that their crosses shall be turned into blessings."[11] If God can transfigure the greatest evil into the greatest Gift, then He intends to turn whatever you're experiencing now into a gift. You cannot be undone. Somewhere, Advent can storm and howl. And the world robed for Christmas can spin on. You, there on the edge, whispering it, defiant through the torn places: "All is grace. — Ann Voskamp

Playing college soccer was going to be the top of my athletic feats. I wasn't going to the Olympics. I was a decent player, but it's because of hard work, not because I was Freddy Adu. I wouldn't have a medal from the Olympics if I wasn't in a chair. I wouldn't have gone to the Olympics and experienced the whole atmosphere. — Mark Zupan

Dear Elizabeth, you cannot know how much joy you bring to my heart... — Terry Spear

From the radiating point of Siwenna, the forces of the Empire reached out cautiously into the black unknown of the Periphery. Giant ships passed the vast distances that separated the vagrant stars at the Galaxy's rim, and felt their way around the outermost edge of Foundation influence. — Isaac Asimov

Today we understand that the future of humanity very much depends on our planet, and that the future of the planet very much depends on humanity. — Dalai Lama

Better to live dreaming, than dream of living. — Craig Stone

I had a dog for 20 years and her name was 'Penny,' so I have a penny necklace. — Kidada Jones

To have a great life, live your life in your own way but for others. — Debasish Mridha

Hamlet has been played by 5,000 actors, no wonder he is crazy. — H.L. Mencken

Optimism is not the ability to live on the highest branch. It is the faith to learn to fly. — Wes Fesler