Grundtvigs Church Quotes & Sayings

Children represent God's most generous gift to us. — James Dobson

All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end ... contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption. — T.H. White

Infancy is irretrievable. Its memories live underground. To what extent they return by stealth or are triggered by various catalysts remains an ongoing question. — Siri Hustvedt

Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste. — John Donne

Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated. — Barbara Tuchman

The real solution to the problem of poverty consists in finding how to increase the employment and earning power of the poor. — Henry Hazlitt

After that, they got hot dogs at a frankfurter stand and walked down the wharf. At Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe they saw shrunken heads and Egyptian mummies and cheap souvenirs. (Meg didn't point out the eight-foot-long petrified whale penis that hung suspended from the ceiling; she could just imagine what Ali would tell her friends.) — Kristin Hannah

I count everything. Even numbers, odd numbers, multiples of 10. I count the ticks of the clock i count the tocks of the clock I count the lines between the lines on a sheet of paper. I count the broken beats of my heart I count my pulse and my blinks and the number of tries it takes to inhale enough oxygen for my lungs. I stay like this I stand like this I count like this until the feeling stops. Until the tears stop spilling, until my fists stop shaking, until my heart stops aching. There are never enough numbers. — Tahereh Mafi

We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without appreciation for grace and beauty, there's no pleasure in creating things and no pleasure in having them! Our lives are made drearier, rather than richer! How can a person take pride in his work when skill and care are considered luxuries! We're not machines! We have a human need for craftsmanship! — Bill Watterson

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck. — Joss Whedon