Kamienny Posag Quotes & Sayings

1924 A revival meeting seems never to get under my skin. Perhaps I am too fish-blooded to enjoy them. But I object not so much to the emotionalism as to the lack of intellectual honesty of the average revival preacher. I do not mean to imply that the evangelists are necessarily consciously dishonest. They just don't know enough about life and history to present the problem of the Christian life in its full meaning. They are always assuming that nothing but an emotional commitment to Christ is needed to save the soul from its sin and chaos. They seem never to realize how many of the miseries of mankind are due not to malice but to misdirected zeal and unbalanced virtue. They never help the people who corrupt family love by making the family a selfish unit in society or those who brutalize industry by excessive devotion to the prudential virtues. — Reinhold Niebuhr

The best thing about a busy social life? It helps you avoid reality. — Gemma Burgess

Literally since I could walk ... I was performing. — Lyndsy Fonseca

Doubt gets a bad rap. Doubting doesn't mean you've stopped believing, but that you've started thinking. Sheep doubt nothing. Chances are you'll get further in life by questioning things than by living like something that ends up as dinner and a sweater. — Amy Alkon

Your true conviction is tested not when everything goes your way but rather when things go wrong... — Assegid Habtewold

There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie's opinion. Ordinary was for suckers. — Libba Bray

We only serve as a model to the portrait of our fame — Jean Cocteau

If she were writing by candlelight she would now be in the dark, for a living flame would refuse to be fed by such pure exhaustion. Actually she is in the dark, for the — Philip Levine

Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun. — Thomas A. Edison