Laporeskos Quotes & Sayings

To be alive is to be broken. And to be broken is to stand in need of grace. Honesty keeps us in touch with our neediness and the truth that we are saved sinners. There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are. Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel — Kara Tippetts

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well. — Marlee Matlin

There followed a long go-nowhere conversation during which she tried to memorize the planes of his face. — Rainbow Rowell

In order to grow in grace, we must be much alone. It is not in society that the soul grows most vigorously. In one single quiet hour of prayer it will often make more progress than in days of company with others. It is in the desert that the dew falls freshest and the air its purest. — Horatius Bonar

If someone said 'diametrically,' could 'opposed' be far behind? — Meg Wolitzer

Some Christians are more offended by the idea of everyone going to heaven than by the idea of everyone going to hell. — Rachel Held Evans

People don't know how to behave in public anymore. — Gallagher

Success is like a rainbow;
after the storm all its colors glow. — Matshona Dhliwayo