Lemparan Basket Quotes & Sayings

The true follower of Christ will not ask, "If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?" Rather he will say, "This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!" — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making. — Carmen Agra Deedy

Power, power, power: how could the world be organized around the struggle for a thing so lonely and oppressive in the having of it? — Jonathan Franzen

What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature? — Rex Stout

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story. — Daisy Berkowitz

For friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent. — Niccolo Machiavelli

In her daydreams, they aged miraculously, she still trim with a blond ponytail, standing next to her strong, tall husband with his thick, curly dark hair and straight white teeth. Money was never an issue. — Karen Jones Gowen

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it — Thomas Carlyle

All of us, regardless of how we identify, need a community in which to grow our faith. We require the tangle of other souls to enlarge our hearts, to perfect our relationships with one another and to help us understand more deeply our better Selves (big 'S'). — James Lecesne

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Kostia: When I'm mowing, I don't ask myself why I'm here.
Theodore: You're here to be Master, Konstantin Dmitrievich.
As it's always been, by the grace of God — Leo Tolstoy

I like the idea that the sacred photo framing process is equally violatible and I think that's partly a carryover from the way I deal with structures to the way I deal with photography. — Gordon Matta-Clark

But if you live your life without feeling and compassion for your fellowman - you are as an animal - 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth' & happiness & peace of mind is not attained by living thus. — Truman Capote

It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King. — Walter Raleigh

It is one thing to say that the Lord is my Shepherd; it is quite another to be lost and have Him guide me home. — Sheila Walsh