Lighthouse Religious Quotes & Sayings

How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along? — Rachel Klein

It isn't knowledge that's making trouble, but the uses it's put to. — Kurt Vonnegut

Kestilan? There was that name again. Oliver fought down an irrational surge of jealousy for this mysterious being who took up so much of Petunia's attention. — Jessica Day George

I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll. — Ben Harper

Anxiously you ask, 'Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide me? Is there an escape from threatened destruction?' The answer is a resounding yes! I counsel you: Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue. It beckons through the storms of life. It calls, 'This way to safety; this way to home. — Thomas S. Monson

We began to build our castles in the air, hoping sooner or later they'd carry us off. New days came like clockwork without becoming tomorrows. We slept less and less, dipped in darkness through the daytime and heated by burning light in the endless evening. And only when we finally got up, threw on our clothes and walked away, did we realize that we had all been gone for years already. — Kristopher Jansma

Alas, it is the dear-bought privilege of the unfortunate to be tedious! — Sophia Lee

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it. — Sharon Salzberg

When I'm dancing with any woman, I immediately get rid of intimacy barriers. I just give her a big hug and crack on. — Anton Du Beke

For people who are at the bottom economically, the world is becoming a harder and harder place. And yet the incentives to become rich are so great because enormous amounts of wealth are being accumulated. And so those two things, that carrot and stick, are beating people along this trajectory of trying desperately to move up in the world. — Mohsin Hamid

I am very happy
Because I have conquered myself
And not the world.
I am very happy
Because I have loved the world
And not myself. — Sri Chinmoy

We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong. — Max Cannon

Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their Philosophy of the World ... Carefully notated structures and interplay morph effortlessly into free improvisation that is intelligent and expressive, but never self-indulgent. Also featuring intense lyrics sung with their clear and melodic voices, the two women make transcendent chamber music outside of any genre. — Elliott Sharp

I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about. — Ernest Gaines

I think people, for the most part, actually want what they think is best. — David Cross