Martynas Quotes & Sayings

God didn't overlook your sins, lest he endorse them.
He didn't punish you, lest he destroy you.
He instead found a way to punish the sin and preserve the sinner.
Jesus took your punishment, and God gave you credit for Jesus' perfection. — Max Lucado

OU DON'T KNOW ABOUT ME WITHOUT YOU HAVE READ A BOOK BY THE name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly - Tom's Aunt Polly, she is - and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before. Now — Mark Twain

was extraordinarily unhandsome, as though God had created the ugliest human being possible and then punched him in the face. — John Connolly

The unknown scares man, but those who confront it, will cease to fear it" (Rodolfo Rios Medina) — Rodolfo Rios Medina

When she was with Lord Thornbeck, it was so difficult to keep from talking to him. She was so drawn to him, to his opinions, his deep-brown eyes, and his rich, rumbly voice - which was exactly why she needed to stay away — Melanie Dickerson

Home is a symbol of the self. Caring for a home is caring for one's self. — Gloria Steinem

And I saw in them a hope...A hope that it was possible to have secrets, to mask one's true nature...and yet still to walk among men. — Kurt Busiek

One has not understood until one has forgotten it. — D.T. Suzuki

Nothing in the community lives in isolation from the rest, not even the queens of the social insects. Nothing lives only in itself, needing nothing from the community. Nothing lives only for itself, owing nothing to the community. Nothing is untouchable or untouched. Every life is on loan from the community from birth and without fail is paid back to the community in death. The community is a web of life, and every strand of the web is a path to all the other strands. Nothing is exempt or excused. Nothing is special. Nothing lives on a strand by itself, unconnected to the rest. As you saw yesterday, nothing is wasted, not a drop of water or a molecule of protein - or the egg of a fly. This is the sweetness and the miracle of it all, Jared. Everything that lives is food for another. Everything that feeds is ultimately itself fed upon or in death returns its substance to the community. — Daniel Quinn