Lissoir Quotes & Sayings

No family of an American hostage has ever been prosecuted for paying a ransom for the return of their loved ones. The last thing we should ever do is to add to a family's pain. — Mark Steyn

I am not a philosopher. — Hans Bethe

It is that which made the angels, Jesus himself, and the holiest saints humble. It is the first and chief mark of the relationship of the creature to God, of the Son to the Father - it is the secret of blessedness, the desire to be nothing, that allows God to be all in all. — Andrew Murray

Who wants avocado? — Wendy Lustbader

I don't want to be played." "Oh, I don't know." A smile touched his lips. "With a guy like that . . . it could be fun. — Lisa Kleypas

You're master of what you've lived,
artisan at what you're living,
amateur at what's next to live. — Richard Bach

So too, since Christ has in principle defeated the fallen "gods" (principalities and powers) who have for ages inspired injustice, cruelty and apathy toward the weak, the poor the oppressed and the needy (Ps. 82), the church can hardly carry out its role in manifesting, on earth and in heaven, Christ's victory over these gods without taking up as a central part of its missions just these causes. We can, in truth, no more bifurcate social concerns and individual salvation than we can bifurcate the cosmic and anthropocentric dimensions of Christ's work on the cross. — Gregory A. Boyd

Yet, the principle of uncertainty is a bad name. In science or outside of it, we are not uncertain. Our knowledge is merely confined within a certain tolerance. We should call it the principle of tolerance. First in the engineering sense. Science has progressed, step by step, the most successful enterprise in the ascent of man, because it has understood that the exchange of information between man and nature, and man and man, can only take place with a certain tolerance. But I also use the word, passionately, about the real world. All knowledge, all information, between human beings, can only be exchanged within a play of tolerance, and that's whether it's in science, or in literature, or in religion, or in politics, or in any form of though that aspires to dogma. — Jacob Bronowski

The fetus is the property of the entire society, — Nicolae Ceausescu

Too late," Whitestorm breathed. "I go to hunt with StarClan." "You can't - the Clan needs you! I need you! — Erin Hunter

Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed. — Barack Obama, Sr.

She is the prettiest and most engaging little fairy in the world. — Charles Dickens