Gushy Mushy Quotes & Sayings

If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control. — Paul Ryan

His [brother in law Jim Hampson] appointment to the Episcopal parish in Wenham, near Gordon College brought them in close touch with leading evangelical faculty members in their pews and church leadership, including Elizabeth Elliot and Addison Leitch. They were instrumental in drawing Jim and and Sarah into the cutting edge of evangelical intellectual leadership, with friendships with Tom Howard and J.I. Packer. My ongoing relationship with Jim Packer, FitzSimons Allison and many other brilliant Anglican evangelicals would not have happened without Jim Hampson. His early influence on me in my transition from modern to classic Christian teaching was immense. While I was trying to demythologize Scripture, he was taking its plain meaning seriously. His strong preaching led him to become one of the founding sponsors and supporters of Trinity School of Ministry in Abridge, Pennsylvania ... — Thomas C. Oden

Anxiety = Uncertainty x Powerlessness — Chip Conley

I enjoy talking pitching and talking baseball. And I don't have all the answers. I don't claim to, but I'm more than happy to share my beliefs. — Roy Halladay

He was decisive and wholehearted in everything he did, so intent non the task at hand that he never looked over his shoulder, even if his cloak got caught in a thorny bush. When he did turn to speak to somebody, he used to swing his entire body and dress him full face. When he shook hands, he was never the first to withdraw his own. He inspired such confidence that he was known as al-Amin, the Reliable One. — Karen Armstrong

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character. — Lysander Spooner

Just start at the beginning, you say? And what beginning might that be? I've come to the conclusion all starts are false ones. Tap the fragile shell of any beginning and you'll find another nested inside. — Christina Sunley

A bad memory is the mother of invention. — Gerald Brenan

Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds. — Richard Paul Evans

We only attain the true idea of marriage when we consider it as a spiritual union
a union of immortal affections, of undying faculties, of an imperishable destiny. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin