Fix Your Ponytail Quotes & Sayings

I never realized how much I've become dependent on human approval until God took it away. I didn't even realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of. God showed me Jesus plus nothing equals everything. And everything minus Jesus equals nothing. That set me free. — Tullian Tchividjian

But that Herschel, for example, who "broke the barriers of the heavens" - did he not once play a provincial church-organ, and give music-lessons to stumbling pianists? Each of those Shining Ones had to walk on the earth among neighbors who perhaps thought much more of his gait and his garments than of anything which was to give him a title to everlasting fame: each of them had his little local personal history sprinkled with small temptations and sordid cares, which made the retarding friction of his course towards final companionship with the immortals. — George Eliot

Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale. — Piers Anthony

If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner. — George Eliot

Yesterday is skin on snake, to be shed many times. — Karen Marie Moning

He was just getting started. He was ready to bust wide open. He could feel it. Big things. Big things were coming. From him. From everywhere. That was the feeling he got lately, as if the whole world had been held in a stable, him included. But soon, soon it was going to bust out all over the place. — Dennis Lehane

America is another name for opportunity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

To get someone's attention
say three words with compassion.
Say "I love you", more than me,
like the river loves the sea. — Debasish Mridha

Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes. — William Everson

He felt his body stirring again at the memory of what she had been like under him.
Rowena's eyes widened as she noticed it herself. "Does it do that a lot?"
He shook his head and pulled her closer to him. "Only when I think of you."
-Rowena & Stryder — Kinley MacGregor

By welcoming a marginalized person whose body is wounded and by welcoming the sinner whose soul is wounded, we put our credibility as Christians on the line. Let us always remember the words of Saint John of the Cross: In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone. — Pope Francis

This is the outer surface of the brain where much of our thinking is done. Unfolded, this surface layer would cover the area of a football field — James Tagg

A true friend is a person who loves and accepts you without judging you. — Debasish Mridha