Kogel Bay Quotes & Sayings

It is said that the gates of paradise can only be opened by the tears of those left behind. I do not know whether that be true. It should be, I think. — David Gemmell

If a person obeys because he has no choice in the matter and would rebel if he had the opportunity, there is nothing in his obedience. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I know this hasn't been a seamless narrative. I've had to shatter the story and string its fragments out along a death lasting decades. — Peter Watts

For anyone who understood the essence of modernism based on and originating in the secularizing and humanistic tendencies of the European Renaissance, it was easy to detect the confrontation that was already taking place between traditional and modern elements in the Islamic world. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr

If God's words determine reality, then of all the things a pastor does, speaking the words of God to the congregation is the most important. — Carl R. Trueman

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. — Christopher Lasch

You pompous, rotund, neighborly, vacuous, complacent ... - Yossarian — Joseph Heller

Forgiveness is no easy task; it takes a lifetime of remembering to move on — LDarnell

Not in depraved things,
but in those well oriented according to nature,
are we to consider what is natural. — Aristotle.

Blame or credit, does not belong to the child alone. Parents, those who raised the child, must be given equal credit, or blame. That does not change, when the child is one, twenty or ninety years old. — Omar Kiam

I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does. — Katharine Whitehorn

It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. — Evelyn Waugh

Luceo non uro means I shine, not burn. To me, though, it means that I have a choice. I need to balance the bad with the good, make sure to avoid the things that could burn or scar me but get close enough to the heat that I feel life and really experience it. Until I met you, I'd never really embraced that idea. I walked around my life just being there, but not really feeling it or being actively involved in making it worthwhile. Then there was you, and suddenly it all made sense. I grabbed onto what Fortune was offering me that night and ran with it. I was shining that night, for sure. Brighter than the Vegas strip. — Elle Casey