Filippenko Reflections Quotes & Sayings

( ... ) too much sadness hath congealed your blood,
And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy. — William Shakespeare

We did decide to trust Christ, but the reason we made that decision is that God had first made us spiritually alive ... God comes to us when we're spiritually dead, when we don't even realize our condition, and gives us the spiritual ability to see our plight and to see the solution in Christ. God comes all the way, not partway, to meet us in our need. When we were dead, He made us alive in Christ. And the first act of that new life is to turn in faith to Jesus. — Jerry Bridges

Every one regards his duty as a troublesome master from whom he would like to be free. — Mazo De La Roche

You don't hear it on the radio. There's something about the voices in Sleater-Kinney that's a little too challenging to ever be on the inside. — Janet Weiss

Lithium prevents my seductive but disastrous highs, diminishes my depressions, clears out the wool and webbing from my disordered thinking, slows me down, gentles me out, keeps me from ruining my career and relationships, keeps me out of a hospital, alive, and makes psychotherapy possible. — Kay Redfield Jamison

The first programming assignment I had in high school was to find the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I thought it would be cooler to write a program to get the teacher's password and all the other students' passwords. And the teacher gave me an A and told the class how smart I was. — Kevin Mitnick

The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature. — Stephen Levine

a light that made me think of long hours in dusty libraries, and old books, and silence. — Donna Tartt

In America idea of freedom isn't actually about freedom. That's about power. The point of an artist is to find out what are the flavors that I must work with. Finding one's freedom is about surrendering to your helplessness. — Chris Martin

Don't let pain keep you from moving forward. It shouldn't stop your progress - it should drive it. — Rachel Van Dyken

I do not believe that hating any man solves the problem of race or any other problem ... I firmly believe that hatred, like anger, works on the physical glandular system as well as on the moral fiber of our nation, and in doing so, can bring no positive good. — Margaret Walker

If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up. — Jimmy Page

Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today. — Charles Handy