Fleshi Adjaranet Quotes & Sayings

The idea that God could only forgive our sins by having his son tortured to death as a scapegoat is surely, from an objective point of view, a deeply unpleasant idea. If God wanted to forgive us our sins, why didn't he just forgive them? Why did he have to have his son tortured? — Richard Dawkins

It's not right to live so long in this world only moving backward."

-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year — Yasunari Kawabata

My wife gets mad because we'll be in the middle of something and I'll stop and say, 'No, I've got to write this down!' She'll say, 'No! We're in a discussion!' I say, 'I know, but it's hilarious! — Henry Cho

new day, it all came back to the fact that he did not have a relationship with God. He'd already be up, and she trembled with the thought of seeing him again. How crazy was that? As if she could just walk blissfully to an altar and say, 'I do.' He had come all that way. Said he would've followed her to the ends of the earth. Still, just as her mother before her, she couldn't. Not with a non-believer. How true that the generations repeated. Her dear sister had paid a high price for disobedience. Mary Rachel had suffered for her bad choice...though God redeemed her in the end. — Caryl McAdoo

The Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, — Lewis Carroll

All I've done is give you a book," she said. "You have to have the courage to learn what's inside it. — Homer Hickam

Forget all that has passed.
Forget all you've heard.
Forget all your preconceived fears.
See me for who I am, not who you thought I was. — Jessiqua Wittman

I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organize and concentrate-or else get fragmented into bits. I have learned to use my 'ten minutes'. I once thought it was not worth sitting down for a time as short as that; now I know differently and, if I have ten minutes, I use them, even if they bring only two lines, and it keeps the book alive. — Rumer Godden

Don't fear experience. Embrace each one as a gift, a teacher, a step to get closer to where you want to be and who you want to become. — Toni Sorenson