Flagellates Quotes & Sayings

I'm scared of being seen. I'm scared of doing anything. I'm scared of losing another person who loves me. I'd rather just drift. — Cecily Anne Paterson

Adnan was deluged with letters, notes, pictures, and prayers. Some were short messages of support, others were pages and pages of personal divulgences. Adnan was stunned at the sometimes very intimate nature of the letters, people pouring out their pain and tribulations to a stranger. He realized it was sometimes easier for people to share their deepest sorrows with a stranger than with people they knew. I told him that's how the Internet mostly works. Students — Rabia Chaudry

In the front was a man he knew only as "Samson," a big man that from all appearances was a former juice head gym rat with exquisitely defined muscles, stripped to the waist and carrying a huge nine foot cross hewn from raw timber and held together with nails and twine. Behind him in a rough line were the flagellates: five men also stripped to the waist, holding various chains, heavy corded ropes, and one with what looked like a leather whip from the S&M sex shop. They beat their backs as they slowly walked down the center of the street. — Joseph M. Chiron

My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile. — Juan Goytisolo

So just to clarify, I always have my vagina with me. It's like my American Express card. — Jenny Lawson

You are where you are because of your thinking. Your thinking dictates your decisions. Decisions are choices. — Andy Andrews

'The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys. — Rachel Johnson

Only God's presence can change people's lives. — Priscilla Shirer

He's happy, Yi-yi."
I went very still. "He, who?"
"The one who danced you into love. — Karen Marie Moning

In order to protest ourselves from being disliked, we question our abilities and downplay our achievements, especially in the presence of others. We put ourselves down before others can. — Sheryl Sandberg

This is not at all funny."
"Which is why I'm not laughing. — Dani Alexander

the greatest clue to changing people is to know and understand what trigger change in people and effectively apply such things in wisdom. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If we conclude that people can get to heaven apart from faith in Christ, then this would mean there is something else they can do to get to heaven. Such a conclusion would not only undercut the proven truth we saw in Romans; it would also be tantamount to saying to Jesus, Thank you for what you did on the cross, but we could have gotten to God another way. — David Platt