Martyrdom Of Stephen Quotes & Sayings

At the heart of every established religion is one sacred mystery that supports belief and induces fidelity, even to the point of martyrdom. — Stephen King

I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters. — Joe Hill

Christ is with those in paradise now. But Christ - the same Christ, with the same reality - promises the Christian that he will bring forth fruit through us in this life now. The power of the crucified, risen, and glorified Christ will bring forth this fruit through us now. — Francis A. Schaeffer

Gratitude is the most important attitude. — Zig Ziglar

The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great. — Abraham Maslow

People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun. — Peter O'Toole

My mom had bought this camera to take classes herself and I remember working with her on it, understanding how the stop-motion [worked], having a high shutter speed and things like that. Long before I picked it up myself, I remember being on a slide at a country club going into the water and wanting my mother to put in on a high shutter speed so she could catch me on the slide without it being blurred. I remember having fun with her: "Let me go on the slide and you'll catch me in motion!" Those are some of the little moments in my artistic making. — Jeff Vespa

She's been living alone with a man for ten years, so of course she's ruined, even though the girls all say he never puts a hand on them. — Naomi Novik

For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it. — Laura Schlessinger

The Bible is always short on details. Didn't Stephen's innate sense of self-preservation thwart his martyrdom at all? — Hope Jahren