Lydgates Quotes & Sayings

I was challenged to do a little exercise with these verses (1 Cor 13:4-8), one that was profoundly convicting. Take the phrase "Love is patient" and substitute your name for the word "love." (For me, "Francis is patient ... ") Do it for every phrase in the passage.
By the end, don't you feel like a liar? If I am meant to represent what love is, then I often fail to love people well.
Following Christ isn't something that can be done halfheartedly or on the side. It is not a label we can display when it is useful. It must be central to everything we do and are. — Francis Chan

All of us need to be constantly reminded it takes a heap of living and loving to make a house a home. — Marvin J. Ashton

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse. — Andy Hargreaves

And there, tucked in his soul, was the love he felt for Sabella since the moment he had seen her. — Lora Leigh

For years in football I was angry with the game, angry with pundits and, a lot of the time, angry with the journalists writing about me. All that changed when I got my break in movies. — Vinnie Jones

As his editor put it, Yeah, it's a piece of shit, but it's good shit. — Margaret Atwood

Burnout at its deepest level is not the result of some train wreck of examinations, long call shifts, or poor clinical evaluations. It is the sum total of hundreds and thousands of tiny betrayals of purpose, each one so minute that it hardly attracts notice. When a great ship steams across the ocean, even tiny ripples can accumulate over time, precipitating a dramatic shift in course. There are many Tertius Lydgates, male and female, inhabiting the lecture halls, laboratories, and clinics of today's medical schools. Like latter-day Lydgates, many of them eventually find themselves expressing amazement and disgust at how far they have veered from their primary purpose. — Richard Gunderman

How much is our life governed by the lives and past actions of others? — Ahdaf Soueif

Nowadays when I walk around, I get noticed, which is kind of weird. — Azealia Banks

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Dreaming is what you do when your eyes are closed ... living is what you do with that dream once you open your eyes! — Nathan Parks

What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being? — Joseph Addison

You put the right artist on the right track in the studio and leave the door open to let God in. — Jay-Z

We owe it to our children to be honest about the world and to provide them with material written specially for them. — Deborah Ellis

The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game. — Abby Sunderland