Gaddy Family Christmas Quotes & Sayings

You are responsible for your own life and what happens in it, so are the other people. — Cecelia Ahern

He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep. — Selma Lagerlof

Your hands learn to do things that you could spend a whole day trying to write about and articulate. There's a discomfort associated with trying to put all those different ways the brain works together. I kind of like to avail myself of that discomfort. — Jessica Stockholder

I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself. — Jeff Bridges

I owe my life and hope to the gospel. — John Piper

It may be doubted whether any repentance is genuine which is not repentance for sin rather than sins — Augustus Hopkins Strong

An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when doctrinal truth is elevated to the position of a false god. This occurs when people rely on the rightness of their doctrine for their standing with God rather than on God himself and his grace. It is a subtly but deadly mistake. The sign that you have slipped into this form of self-justification is that you become what the book of Proverbs calls a 'scoffer'. — Timothy Keller

[Voltaire] theoretically prefers a republic, but he knows its flaws: it permits factions which, if they do not bring on civil war, at least destroy national unity; it is suited only to small states protected by geographic situation, and as yet unspoiled and untorn with wealth; in general "men are rarely worthy to govern themselves." Republics are transient at best; they are the first form of society, arising from the union of families; the American Indians lived in tribal republics, and Africa is full of such democracies. but differentiation of economic status puts an end to these egalitarian governments; and differentiation is the inevitable accompaniment of development. — Will Durant

I could be a yoga instructor. I'm not certified, but I could do it. Once I did a class where the instructor didn't show up, and I just went to the front and did it, and everyone followed. So I've done it before, and I love it. — Nina Dobrev

When you really do feel like an alien, and you really do feel like a space creature, and you really do feel you want to experiment and dress up and be different every day, to find what looks best but never stick to one thing ... Just the fact that that was offered to those kids during that time is pretty remarkable. — Todd Haynes

God does not give His people a ministry for which He does not give them the power to do it. — Gary Haugen

Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.' — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Sick unto death, I think they call it — Eloisa James

Life is beautiful,though the circumstances and situations around us may not say so,but life is certainly beautiful — Wogu Donald