Kumpenda Mungu Quotes & Sayings

I love to have real people of history interact with my fictional characters. History gives me the plot. I research the period meticulously, and then I blend in a romantic and sensual love story to give it balance. The heavier the history, the more romantic the couple must be. — Virginia Henley

There are times when the one thing you haven't counts more than all the riches that may be yours. — Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

When I felt ill and was on the way to becoming a burden to the other men, I noticed a growing chill in their attitude toward me. For people like us, living day and night on the brink of danger, the normal instinct of survival seems to strike inward, like a disease, distorting the personality and removing all motives other than those of sheer self-interest. That is why this afternoon I did not wait to go and tell my former comrades-in-arms what had happened to me. For one thing, they probably already knew; besides, it seemed unfair to risk awakening their dormant sense of humanity. — Shohei Ooka

There's something I've noticed, sir,' he said, 'ever since we joined up with you in Spain.'
'What's that?'
'That we're always outnumbered and surrounded.'
Sharpe had been listening, not to Harper, but to the day itself. 'Notice anything?' he asked.
'That we're surrounded and outnumbered, sir? — Bernard Cornwell

I quickly found that the American church is a difficult place to fit in if you want to live out New Testament Christianity. The goals of American Christianity are often a nice marriage, children who don't swear, and good church attendance. Taking the words of Christ literally, and seriously, is rarely considered. That's for the 'radicals' who are 'unbalanced' and who go 'overboard.' Most of us want a balanced life we can control, that is safe, and that does not involve suffering. — Francis Chan

Buddhism suggests there are no elect. Everything rests upon your own self-effort, which is the good news because that means you don't have to wait around for some nebulous God to help you. — Frederick Lenz

A continual fellowship with God gives us His wisdom to properly evaluate the events that are occurring — Sunday Adelaja

. . . they lurk passively, like vampire sheep — Margaret Atwood

It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you. — Ansel Adams

Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor. — William Shatner