Franciscans International Quotes & Sayings

Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation. — Linda Lingle

He is eloquent and persuasive; and once his words had even power over my heart: but trust him not. His soul is as hellish as his form, full of treachery and fiend-like malice. Hear him not; call — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

So, a good process for making your ideas stickier is: (1) Identify the central message you need to communicate - find the core; (2) Figure out what is counterintuitive about the message - i.e., What are the unexpected implications of your core message? Why isn't it already happening naturally? (3) Communicate your message in a way that breaks your audience's guessing machines along the critical, counterintuitive dimension. Then, once their guessing machines have failed, help them refine their machines. — Chip Heath

No one statement wrested from its context is a sufficient warrant for actions that plainly controvert other commands. How excellent a thing it would be if the whole Church of Christ had learned that no law of life may be based upon an isolated text. Every false teacher who has divided the Church, has had, "it is written" on which to hang his doctrine. — G. Campbell Morgan

It's amazing how bad you can make the truth sound. As long as you keep it partially recognizable when you spit it out, a crowd will eat it up without even thinking abot how hard you chewed on it first. — Courtney Summers

I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever. — Arthur Sullivan

The daring venture, the prolonged distrust, the cruel Nay, the tedium, the cutting-into-the-quick - how seldom do THESE come together! Out of such seed, however - is truth produced! — Friedrich Nietzsche