Jojothestrong Quotes & Sayings

The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous. — David O. Russell

The American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind. — Pope Pius XII

Well, she can go to hell with her whispering and her words. You believe in a miracle, but really it just comes down to loaves of bread. — Erich Maria Remarque

I feel him brush the grape over my lips again. Instinctively, sensually, I open my mouth and let him feed it to me, breathing hard. By the time I swallow, his smile is gone. — Katy Evans

Gazing out from the mountains, the clouds are whiter, the sky is bluer, the air seeping into your lungs is as clear as the water roaring down from the snow, melting on the high peaks. A place where heaven is a little closer. — Virginia Alison

As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend. — Kara Swisher

True faith is forged in the furnace, not the showroom. — Mike Huckabee

Only by thinking I had freedom had I come to understand how imprisoned I was. — Alice Sebold

No duty is more earnestly impressed upon us in Scripture than the duty of continual communion with Him. — David McIntyre

I saw that for a long time I had not liked people and things, but only followed the rickety old pretense of liking. I saw that even my love for those closest to me had become only an attempt to love, that my casual relations -- with an editor, a tobacco seller, the child of a friend, were only what I remembered I should do, from other days. All in the same month I became bitter about such things as the sound of the radio, the advertisements in the magazines, the screech of tracks, the dead silence of the country -- contemptuous at human softness, immediately (if secretively) quarrelsome toward hardness -- hating the night when I couldn't sleep and hating the day because it went toward night. I slept on the heart side now because I knew that the sooner I could tire that out, even a little, the sooner would come that blessed hour of nightmare which, like a catharsis, would enable me to better meet the new day. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Consideration and Esteem surely follow command of Language as Admiration waits on Beauty — Jane Austen

they pledged their lives and their substance to maintain the cause of Christ. — Anonymous