Laaitie Quotes & Sayings

I'm afraid that just as wealth and privilege can be a stumbling block on the path to the gospel, theological expertise and piety can also get in the way of the kingdom. Like wealth, these are not inherently bad things. However, they are easily idolized. The longer our lists of rules and regulations, the more likely it is that God himself will break one. — Rachel Held Evans

Copy and paste is a design error — Steve McConnell

Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey. — Loren Eiseley

So the books are waiting. Of this you may be confident: they'll be ready when the whim strikes you. — Alan Jacobs

Avoid the penalties of the blame game. You were born to be boss player, not a blame giver. Stop the blame! — Israelmore Ayivor

Every intense relationship between human beings is full of traps, and if you want it to endure you have to learn to avoid them. — Elena Ferrante

Yes, it sucked getting dumped. But wasn't it better to just be brutally honest? To admit that your feeling for someone is never going to be powerful enough to justify taking up any more of their time? I was doing him a favor, really. Freeing him up for a better opportunity. In fact, I was a practically a saint, if you really thought about it. Exactly. — Sarah Dessen

An individual being will go through lives and events in cycles on earth until it learns those specific lessons that it had come to learn in each incarnation. — Thomas Vazhakunnathu

Demon summoning wasn't illegal, but my foot in their gut a couple of times might convince them it was a really bad idea. — Kim Harrison

But, mind you, very few people would understand that point of view. Most people, you see, haven't got any imagination — Agatha Christie

Is that all I am to have?" She followed him. "I suppose you consider an apology beneath you."
Rather, he was considering her beneath him, how good she'd felt there, and how he would like that again. He halted. "Madam, I offer my profoundest apology. It shan't happen again." As though his feet moved of their own will, he found himself stepping toward her. "Unless you wish it to."
She backed up. "Not in this life." But her eyes were wary.
Good. He did not wish to frighten her. But keeping her wary could work. And yet the most powerful need to be near her would not leave him. Of course it wouldn't. After two long years he wanted a woman. Among his brother's potential brides was not, however, the place to go searching for one. "That must be to my advantage, then," he said.
She screwed up her brow. "Must it?"
"You wield an impressive pitchfork."

-Ravenna & Vitor — Katharine Ashe