Jarless Candles Quotes & Sayings

When I ask, "How are you?" that is really what I want to know. I am not asking how many items are on your to-do list, nor asking how many items are in your inbox. I want to know how your heart is doing, at this very moment. Tell me. Tell me your heart is joyous, tell me your heart is aching, tell me your heart is sad, tell me your heart craves a human touch. Examine your own heart, explore your soul, and then tell me something about your heart and your soul. — Omid Safi

There is no light in earth or heaven but the cold light of stars; and the first watch of night is given to the red planet Mars. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What fragile and unknown threads the destinies of nations and the lives of men are suspended. — Alexandre Dumas

Most of us really are not very concerned about the needs around us. Most Christians rarely share the gospel, and most Christians' schedules are not heavily weighted to feeding the hungry, helping the sick, and strengthening the church in the neediest places in our country. — David Platt

It is cheering to note that [Martin] Luther (1524) did not see why schools should not be fun as well: Now since the young must leap and jump, or have something to do, because they have a natural desire for it which should not be restrained (for it is not well to check them in everything) why should we not provide for them such schools, and lay before them such studies? — Martin Luther

We want to do something with the time we have, something that will give that time a certain meaning, a certain weight. — Robert Goolrick

To attack terrorism, firstly attack the ignorance which is the greatest source of terrorism! Attack the ignorance worldwide because ignorance often creates sick minds! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

But I know now that isn't true; history is filled with fictional people. And even the epigraph Fitzgerald placed at the beginning of The Great Gatsby is by a writer who doesn't exist. We have all been fooled into believing in people who are entirely imaginary - made-up prisoners in a hypothetical panopticon. But the point isn't whether or not you believe in imaginary people; it's whether or not you want to. — Robyn Schneider

I dress sexily - but not in an obvious way. Sexy in a virginal way — Victoria Beckham

Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time ... I once saw a man kill a lion with a 30-30 caliber rifle under certain conditions, but that doesn't mean that a 30-30 rifle is a lion gun. — Theodore Roosevelt

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing. — Billie Holiday

Mark Hopkins was one of the truest and best men that ever lived. He had a keen analytical mind; was thoroughly accurate, and took general supervision of the books, contracts, etc. He was strictly the office man, and never bought or sold anything. I always felt when I was in the East that our business in his hands was entirely safe. — Collis Potter Huntington

One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The word sentiment sounds mushy [but] sentiment is not mushy. — David Brooks

Accepting the presidency, Barack introduces "my best friend of sixteen years, the love of my life, Michelle Obama" and I think I will pass out.
That, right there, is love in action. — Emma Forrest

I have discovered that enemies will buy your books as much as your fans buy your books because they're looking for something new to hate you for. — Larry Winget