Halbig Character Quotes & Sayings

When I was a little girl, if someone asked me why I was a Christian, I said it was because Jesus lived in my heart. In high school, I said it was because I accepted the atonement of Jesus Christ on the cross for my sins. My sophomore year of college, during a short-lived Reformed phase, I said it was because of the irresistible grace of God. But after watching Zarmina's execution on television, I decided that the most truthful answer to that question was this: I was a Christian because I was born in the United States of America in the year 1981 to Peter and Robin Held. Arminians call it free will; Calvinists call it predestination. I call it the cosmic lottery. — Rachel Held Evans

We are not saved in order to be a blessing to other people
you will be that inevitably
but primarily we are saved in order to be conformed to the likeness of Jesus Christ, God's Son. — Alan Redpath

People have been using human waste as fertilizer for centuries. It's even got a pleasant name: "night soil. — Andy Weir

The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he will learn readily and make a good soldier. — Ulysses S. Grant

I only need to know one thing. Am I going to need the flamethrower? — Rachel Caine

Leaders don't need a path. They make one. — Tim Fargo

We're going to be in the wilderness in three days. There won't be doughnut stores. — Bill Bryson

My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low. — Tracey Emin

If a person gets rid of any weight, or girth, or fat, it isn't lost
it is fought off, beaten off. — Samuel G. Blythe

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding. — George Bernard Shaw