Likerank Quotes & Sayings

God's justice is a saving, healing, restorative justice, because the God to whom justice belongs is the Creator God who has yet to complete his original plan for creation and whose justice is designed not simply to restore balance to a world out of kilter but to bring to glorious completion and fruition the creation, teeming with life and possibility, that he made in the first place. — N. T. Wright

Make no small plans. They have no magic to stir men's souls. — Spencer W. Kimball

Fall, then figure out what to do on the way down. — Del Close

Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature? — Marcus Aurelius

I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus' thinking, is this: that hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and
evil in the universe. — Martin Luther King Jr.

In America, one must be something, but in Italy one can simply be. — Pietros Maneos

Her power was a wrenching thing, starless black and sorrow, but my magic was something more...it was hope. — Roshani Chokshi

A piece of rusty pump and a pile of stones,
all that was left of the place he and Marthy had called home. Home. What a big word that was. Lots of attempts made lately to belittle it. Plenty of fun poked at it. Young folks laughed about it,
called it a place to park. Everybody wanted to get some place else, seemed like. They'd find out. They'd understand some day. When they got old, they'd know. They'd want to go home. sometimes in their lives everybody wanted to go home. — Bess Streeter Aldrich

Too many leaders assume that the role of leadership is to control. — Jim Ferrell

This ain't going to be no goddamn Sunday school picnic. — Kent Haruf

There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate. — Baron De Montesquieu

There is a ripeness of time for death,
regarding others as well as ourselves, when it is reasonable we should drop off, and make room for
another growth. When we have lived our generation out, we should not wish to encroach on another. — Thomas Jefferson

Fireworks: we shoot them off gaily while our dogs hide under the bed. Philosophers are dogs! — Anthony Marais