Jthm Funny Quotes & Sayings

By placing all our focus on receiving God's blessings and gifts, we behave just like the arrogant young man in the story [Parable of the Prodigal Son] - we value what God can do for us but not God himself. We seek a relationship with God as a utilitarian means to an end. And although we may praise him with our words, our hearts are set on what we hope to get from him. We become jerks cloaked in religiosity. — Skye Jethani

No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can. — Haruki Murakami

As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning to salute you as fellow revolutionaries. Neither you nor I are willing to accept the tyranny of poverty, nor the dictatorship of ignorance, nor the despotism of ill health, nor the oppression of bias and prejudice and bigotry. We want change. We want progress. We want it both abroad and at homeand we aim to get it. — Lyndon B. Johnson

How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awake them? — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Lord, hang on to me. I know I should be hanging on to you, but I'm not. The truth is, I feel too wounded and broken and angry and rebellious and hurt right now to hang on to you. So if I'm going to get through this at all, it's got to be up to you. See me through this, Lord, hang on, please hang on to me and don't let go. — Karen Scalf Linamen

No action is safe from meaning. — Karan Mahajan

If things are the way they are, why should I try to make them look different? — Thomas Ruff

Never bored, so I'll never get old — David Bowie

This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society. — Raul Grijalva

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers. — Robin Morgan

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens. — Pema Chodron

Your poor lungs." "We're not gonna live long enough to get cancer. The Bible says there's just seven years of Tribulation after the Rapture. — Tom Perrotta