Karavidas Illinois Quotes & Sayings

The whole history of Christianity proves that she has little indeed to fear from persecution as a foe, but much to fear from persecution as an ally. — Thomas B. Macaulay

When our institutions lack movement to propel them forward, the Spirit, I believe, simply moves around them, like a current flowing around a rock in a stream...without that soul work that teaches us to open our deepest selves to God and ground our souls in love, no movement will succeed and no institution will stand...it is the linking of action and contemplation, great work and deep spirituality, that keeps goodness, rightness, beauty, and aliveness flowing...as Pope Francis has said, this moment calls for social poets: sincere and creative people who will rise on the wings of faith to catch the wind of the Spirit, the wind of justice, joy, and peace. (p. 180) — Brian McLaren

Think of how strange the colours and sights of the world would be for a blind man abruptly made to see or a man deaf from birth hearing the playing of a hundred flutes — Paul Hoffman

The gold you have to dig for is not the real gold. — Marty Rubin

You're distracting,' I said truthfully.
'I won't be. I promise,' Noah said. 'I'll get some crayons and draw quitely. Alone. In a corner. — Michelle Hodkin

Wherever there is true grace, there is a desire for more grace. — Matthew Henry

The most sublime labour of poetry is to give sense and passion to insensate things; and it is characteristic of children to take inanimate things in their hands and talk to them in play as if they were living persons... This philological-philosophical axiom proves to us that in the world's childhood men were by nature sublime poets... — Giambattista Vico

There could be talking bunny rabbits, spiders who write English messages in their webs, and for that matter, melancholy choo-choo trains. There could be, I suppose, but there aren't-so my theory doesn't have to explain them. — Daniel Dennett

Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters. — Euripides

I've always been told I had an old face. So when I was in my 20s, I never got to play a teenager. — Scott Bakula

But the biggest fake of the year, Paul Begala's last smile — Dennis Miller

She was fantasy and I was the very most mundane kind of reality. — Stephenie Meyer

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency. — Epicurus

Disneyland is a show. — Walt Disney