Lammerts Dining Quotes & Sayings

If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God. — Oswald Chambers

Some of us need to discover that we will not begin to live more fully until we have the courage to do and see and taste and experience much less than usual ... And for a man who has let himself be drawn completely out of himself by his activity, nothing is more difficult than to sit still and rest, doing nothing at all. The very act of resting is the hardest and most courageous act he can perform. — Thomas Merton

I want to have the heart and mind of a queen," she whispered. "I want it more than anything. But I'm only pretending. I can't find the feeling of it inside me."
Fire considered her quietly. You want me to look for it inside you.
"I just want to know," Bitterblue said. "If it's there, it would be a great comfort for me to know."
Fire said, I can tell you already that it's there.
"Really?" Bitterblue whispered.
Queen Bitterblue, Fire said, shall I share with you the feeling of your own strength? — Kristin Cashore

The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance. — Oswald Chambers

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows — Kin Hubbard

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it. — Nic Pizzolatto

It is as if we are trapped in a never-ending game, our lives hinging on the roll of a dice or the turn of a card. — Richard A. Knaak

If you got to castrate your miser'ble self with a piece o' rusty barb wire, do it. — Fred Phelps

He didn't know why he had become president of the galaxy, except that it seemed a fun thing to be. — Douglas Adams

The myth of Christian martyrdom and persecution needs to be corrected, because it has left us with a dangerous legacy that poisons the well of public discourse. This affects not just Christians, but everyone. We cannot use the mere fact that we feel persecuted as evidence that our cause is just or as the grounds for rhetorical or actual war. We cannot use the supposed moral superiority of our ancient martyrs to demonstrate the intrinsic superiority of our modern religious beliefs or ideological positions. Once we recognize that feeling persecuted is not proof of anything, then we have to engage in serious intellectual and moral debate about the actual issues at hand. — Candida R. Moss

Intuition is the result of nonconscious pattern recognition, — Shane Snow