Levanduski Landscapes Quotes & Sayings

There is a very important connection between the Church's worldview and the Church's hymns. If your heart and mouth are filled with songs of victory, you will tend to have an eschatology of dominion; if, instead, your songs are fearful, expressing a longing for escape-or if they are weak, childish ditties-your worldview and expectations will be escapist and childish. Historically, the basic hymnbook for the Church has been the Book of Psalms. The largest book of the Bible is the Book of Psalms, and God providentially placed it right in the middle of the Bible, so that we couldn't miss it! Yet how many churches use the Psalms in musical worship? It is noteworthy that the Church's abandonment of dominion eschatology coincided with the Church's abandonment of the Psalms. — David H. Chilton

The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a Trappist monk, the organizational ability of a Prussian field marshal, the insight into human relations of a Viennese psychologist, the discipline of a man who prints the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin, the exquisite sense of timing of an Olympic gymnast, and by the way, a natural instinct and flair for exceptional use of language. — Leon Uris

Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be afraid. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely. — Frank McCourt

I'm a living sunset, lightning in my bones. — Ben Harper

Oneness with God is not a dream, it is the only reality. Everything else is an illusion. — E'yen A. Gardner

The best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe — Jasper Fforde

Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind ... and they just go blind ... they sit around in their huts. — Fred Hollows

Yes, if it is meant to be, it will be. In the meantime, create your own fate. Plan big and dream bigger. — Destiny Booze

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written ... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on. — Taylor Swift

It's kind of hard in politics to forget that you're a Democrat or a Republican and remember that you're a father and a grandfather ... and that they're entitled to more than they're getting. — Ralph Hall

In Scotland, there is a rapid loss of all grandeur of mien and manners; a provincial eagerness and acuteness appear; the poverty of the country makes itself remarked, and a coarseness of manners; and, among the intellectual, is the insanity of dialectics. — Ralph Waldo Emerson