Fontbonne Athletics Quotes & Sayings

We live in the age of the city. The city is everything to us it consumes us and for that reason we glorify it
-Onookome Okome — Mike Davis

Don't wait to be led ... do it yourself, person to person. — Mother Teresa

'Noah,' for me, wasn't a decision about taking on the Bible. It was about working with Darren Aronofsky. — Douglas Booth

Don't stretch yourself too much with a mortgage. Buy within your means. It's not worth the sleepless nights. — Sarah Beeny

The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way. — Madeleine L'Engle

To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others. — Jimmy Carter

Be an instrument of peace, not a preacher of hate. — Debasish Mridha

The declared enemies of God and His Church, heretics and schismatics, must be criticized as much as possible, as long as truth is not denied. It is a work of charity to shout: 'Here is the wolf!' when it enters the flock or anywhere else. — Saint Francis De Sales

There is an eternal vital correspondence between our blood and the sun: there is an eternal vital correspondence between our nerves and the moon. If we get out of contact and harmony with the sun and moon, then both turn into great dragons of destruction against us. — D.H. Lawrence

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are.And, of course, so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument. I hear a preacher announce for his text and topic the expediency of one of the institutions of his church. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without satisfaction, you cannot have compassion. You have to be satisfied souls, then your compassion will act. — Nirmala Srivastava

It is better to be a little too strict than too liberal. — Dwight L. Moody

The best way to live, then, was this: have a very simple lifestyle, be kind to those around you, and surround yourself with friends. — Nigel Warburton

Driftglass," I said. "You know all the Coca-Cola bottles and cut-crystal punch bowls and industrial silicon slag that goes into the sea?"
I know the Coca-Cola bottles."
They break, and the tide pulls the pieces back and forth over the sandy bottom, wearing the edges, changing their shape. Sometimes chemicals in the glass react with chemicals in the ocean to change the color. Sometimes veins work their way through in patterns like snowflakes, regular and geometric; others, irregular and angled like coral. When the pieces dry, they're milky. Put them in water and they become transparent again. — Samuel R. Delany