Life In Motion An Unlikely Ballerina Quotes & Sayings

We cannot worship the suffering God today and ignore him tomorrow. We cannot eat and drink the body and blood of the passionate and compassionate God today, and then refuse to live passionately and compassionately tomorrow. If we say or sing, as we so often do, 'Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit', we thereby commit ourselves, in love, to the work of making his love known to the world that still stands so sorely in need of it. This is not the god the world wants. This is the God the world needs. — N. T. Wright

I don't think I believe in any god," Merla said. "I think we make our own destiny. I think religion is superstition. Does that shock you?"
Agata shook her head and smiled. "If the Goddess is kind, then she will allow you your doubts, and embrace believers and unbelievers alike. If she is not, then the witches are mistaken, and we should not be worshipping her anyway. — Duncan Harper

The rise of the Oligarchy will always remain a cause of secret wonder to the historian and the philosopher. Other great historical events have their place in social evolution. They were inevitable. Their coming could have been predicted with the same certitude that astronomers to-day predict the outcome of the movements of stars. Without — Jack London

I got run over by a bug-eyed dummy, I guess. — Sterling Marlin

You can't make a good show based on pure verisimilitude, pure anti-drama. But you have to acknowledge a lot of ordinary life. Most TV doesn't do that. — David Simon

If you die, I'll die.' 'But is you live, I'll live.' - Bowman and Kestrel, Firesong — William Nicholson

New York critics - I hear when one of them watched "A Star Is Born", he talked back to the screen. — Barbra Streisand

Whether you know it or not, one of the most important relationships in your life is with your Soul. Will you be kind and loving to your Soul, or will you be harsh and difficult? Many of us unknowingly damage our Souls with our negative attitudes and actions or by simple neglect. By making the relationship with your Soul an important part of your life, however, by honoring it in your daily routine, you give your life greater meaning and substance. Use your experiences-all of them-as opportunities to nourish your Soul! — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

From the empty grave of Jesus the enemies of the cross turn away in unconcealable dismay. Those whom the force of no logic can convince, and whose hearts are steeled against the appeal of almighty love from the cross itself, quail before the irresistible power of this simple fact. Christ has risen from the dead! After two thousand years of the most determined assault upon the evidence which demonstrates it, that fact stands. And so long as it stands Christianity, too, must stand as the one supernatural religion. — B. B. Warfield

The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time. — Kate DiCamillo

She may not be able to teach the baby how to cook, but she could teach the child how to shoot a gun and how to disarm a man when being attacked with a knife. You never knew when those things could come in handy. — Kathleen Brooks

May God give back to you in love all the love you have given. — Mother Teresa

I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money ... but city and state governments cannot. — Robert Kiyosaki

The easiest lie ever told is a truth no one believes.- Sixteen Seconds — Aubrea Summer

If you look ahead 10 years, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the people of Russia had become fans of missile defence. — Donald Rumsfeld