Manalive Chesterton Quotes & Sayings

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders. — Muhammad Iqbal

Every encounter with the external world presents a conflict with a person's cherished inner world. How we resolve these ongoing boarder conflicts between reality and ideas results in tectonic shifts in our mental makeup, which influx we incorporate by responding to the never-ending chaos of a worldly life. — Kilroy J. Oldster

I mean,' he said with increasing vehemence, 'that if there be a house for me in heaven it will either have a green lamp-post and a hedge, or something quite as positive and personal as a green lamp-post and a hedge. I mean that God bade me love one spot and serve it, and do all things however wild in praise of it, so that this one spot might be a witness against all the infinities and the sophistries, that Paradise is somewhere and not anywhere, is something and not anything. And I would not be so very much surprised if the house in heaven had a real green lamp-post after all. — G.K. Chesterton

As long as you believe it ... you can and will achieve it. Now that the ball is in your court ... go for it! — Timothy Pina

You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall. — James Geary

What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come. — Emil Zatopek

How is it you can love someone when you hardly know them and how do you stop loving them once you do? — Kate McGahan

Do not say that faith in Christ alone can save you, for this is not possible if you do not attain love for Him, which is demonstrated by deeds. As for mere faith: "The demons also believe and tremble" (James, 2:19). The action of love consists in heartfelt good deeds toward one's neighbor, magnanimity, patience, and sober use of things. — Maximus The Confessor

Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge. — Bella Abzug

On various shows, I've been the producing-director, the executive producer-director; and if you were working with the material you love with the right group of people, it's an incredible job to be doing. — Lesli Linka Glatter

There's nothing I like better than going to my apartment, closing the door, cooking my little dinner for one and just tuning out. My apartment really is my haven. It's a nest where I go to heal. — Tim Gunn