Maivia Quotes & Sayings

I asked, can work and leisure and relationships and eating and lovemaking and ministry all really flow from a single passion? Is there something deep enough and big enough and strong enough to hold all that together? Can sex and cars and work and war, and changing diapers and doing taxes really have a God exalting, soul satisfying unity? Now we see that every experience in life is designed to magnify the cross of Christ. Or to say it another way, every good thing in life (or bad thing graciously turned for good) is meant to magnify Christ and Him crucified.
Not to aim to show God is not to love, because God is what we need most deeply ... If you don't point people to God for everlasting joy, you don't love. You waste your life. — John Piper

If you tiptoe into cold water, you're missing out on the rush of plunging in headfirst. — Simone Elkeles

If she didn't get some dick soon, she was going to die. — Olivia Cunning

Just because we're together doesn't mean everything is fine.
He couldn't agree with that. Being with her was all he needed. — Veronica Rossi

But I believe there is no difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the second are fearful before the danger and the first after it. The coward is a coward, then, because he has brought his fear with him; persons we think cowardly will sometimes amaze us by their bravery, if they have had no forewarning of their danger. — Gene Wolfe

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. — Laurence J. Peter

The goal of tattooing was never beauty. The goal was change. From the scarified Nubian priests of 2000 B.C., to the tattooed acolytes of the Cybele cult of ancient Rome, to the moko scars of the modern Maori, humans have tattooed themselves as a way of offering up their bodies in partial sacrifice, enduring the physical pain of embellishment and emerging changed beings. Despite — Dan Brown

I've sworn off agnosticism, which I now call cowardly atheism. I've come to the position that in the complete absence of any supporting data whatsover for the persistence of the individual in some spiritual form, it is necessary to operate under the provisional conclusion that there is no afterlife and then be ready to amend that if I find out otherwise. — James Cameron

I'm not a crier. — Ashley Wagner

And now - our love is so true, I won't take a step without you. Thank God, you came. If you love me, please don't ever let me go. — Angela Morrison

If there is any danger in the present weather, in the name of God, Monsieur, wait until spring — Vincent De Paul

It is vitally important for local church leaders to keep in touch with the spiritual state of their members, to discuss their level of biblical knowledge, and to teach them how to study God's Word and pray. — Billy Graham

He stops pacing and turns toward me. You won't wait for me. I won't let you give up what should be the best year of your life. I had to grow up way too fast; I'm not taking that away from you, too. It wouldn't be fair. I don't want you to wait for me, Layken. — Colleen Hoover

We are the only species systematically destroying its own habitat. — Marianne Williamson