Jostyne Quotes & Sayings

My president will boldly throw 1 million into poverty. — Charles Rangel

My mother worked for more than a decade before marrying. She went to New York City to get a master's degree. And she continued to work as a teacher and a principal until she was forced to retire.Both she and my father instilled in my sister and me a deep love of learning. — Samuel Alito

Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive. — Philip Yancey

How did you come to be a Christian? I sought the Lord. But how did you come to seek the Lord? The truth flashed across my mind in a moment - I should not have sought Him unless there had been some previous influence in my mind to make me seek Him. I prayed, thought I, but then I asked myself, How came I to pray? I was induced to pray by reading the Scriptures. How came I to read the Scriptures? I did read them, but what led me to do so? Then, in a moment, I saw that God was at the bottom of it all, and that He was the Author of my faith, — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

For instance, a new kind of rich person named John Henry bought the Florida Marlins in January 1999. Most baseball owners were either heirs, or empire builders of one sort or another, or both. Henry had made his money in the intelligent end of the financial markets. He had an instinctive feel for the way statistical analysis could turn up inefficiencies in human affairs. Inefficiencies in the financial markets had made Henry a billionaire - and he saw some familiar idiocies in the market for baseball players. — Anonymous

You have to take the long view. First, when Moses came down from Mt. Sinai, man has already progressed to the point where a commandment against cannibalism was no longer necessary. And, second, it's like pissing on a boulder. For the first few thousand years, you don't see any effect. But after that, you start to see a definite impact. — I. F. Stone

The original language of Christianity is translation. — Lamin Sanneh

The planet is going to have the last word concerning the damage humans are inflicting upon it. It's only going to take so much abuse, and then it may well burp and snort a little, and destroy a good bit of the population. I don't think it would be a stretch to take the hypothesis one step further and attribute such a defense strategy to a kind of planetary intelligence. — Cleve Backster

He'd been lying to himself all these months.
He WAS in love with her. And he had no idea what to do about it. — Courtney Milan

I'm truly flattered and honored that I get to be Raven for life, — Terrell Suggs

God is the one being in the universe for whom self-exaltation is the most loving thing. Anyone else who exalts himself distracts us from what we need, namely, God. — John Piper

Searching for new ideas is an endless process. — R. K. Laxman

And he returned to his books, which had never asked him for anything he could not provide. That — Paulo Coelho

The realm of truth can only flourish,
When you allow the dualities to languish. — Gian Kumar