Laodicea The Lukewarm Quotes & Sayings

It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;" whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now. — Jonathan Swift

We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community. — Sebastiao Salgado

Effective time management is instrumental for economic reformation. — Sunday Adelaja

Summer here comes on like a zaftig hippie chick, jazzed on chlorophyll and flinging fistfuls of butterflies to the sun. — Michael Perry

In this framework, although church discipline is being thought through afresh by many Christian groups,44 one of the areas where more thought is still needed is the manner in which churches that draw lines in the moral arenas - however graciously, humbly, gently, sometimes by degrees, but also firmly - are not only taking steps to align themselves with Scripture (and with the main strands of Christian heritage, for that matter), but are taking on the culture. Such steps become not only a matter of nurturing and protecting the faithful, but of showing a pluralistic world what Christian living looks like. This will alienate some; under God's good hand, it will draw others, not least because the freedoms promised by pluralism are tearing society apart. In any case, we have little choice: elementary faithfulness demands it. — D. A. Carson

I laugh because me been dancing with shadow in the dawn and in the night. Even in broad, bright daylight we searching for the dark. — Marlon James

You won't change her by making fun of her. You just hurt her feelings. — Doris Lessing

The little woman, wearing a pink and black zigzag-striped pantsuit over a black turtleneck, resembled a skinny zebra who'd OD'd on Pepto-Bismol. — Vonnie Davis

Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make of all things, the most likely way therefore to get any insight into the nature of those parts of the Creation which come within our observation must in all reason be to number, weigh and measure. — Stephen Hales

Maybe I'm not good for you. Maybe what I feel is wrong. Because I did love Ashton. She was all I needed ... but never did I feel the uncontrollable desire to get her underneath me. Never did I make up reasons to get her to wrap her legs around me so I could feel her pressed up against me. Never. He swallowed hard. Never did I think about being inside her — Abbi Glines

Stronger than iron crueler than death sweeter than springtime it lives beyond breath — Juliet Marillier