Matthean Church Quotes & Sayings

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe. - Saint Augustine — Bradley Nelson

I would still rather be in Silicon Alley. I like the West Coast also, but it's sort of fragmented. You have companies in downtown San Francisco, companies in Mountain View, and people are driving between them all. It's kind of nice in New York to just jump in a cab and reach another company so easily. — Jon Oringer

In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience. — Al Sharpton

I grab the nearest rock, toss it in my hand, watching as it drops and soars into the air again. I chunk it in the water, as the rock sinks to the bottom, ripples cast in each direction. Unsatisfied I do this again. And again. I only stop when I feel him approach. I stop and steady myself, I don't turn. I know it's him, my body turns rigid and my heart speeds up as if the devil himself is behind me. — Brittany Butler

I'm not a fan of what we call 'friendly fire' or 'blue on blue.' We don't want to have that. — Tommy Franks

Gay and Lesbian Canadians are entitled to equal treatment under law and are part of Canada's diversity. — Stephen Harper

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it. — Woodrow Wilson

Life is such a mysterious thing that you are up one day; you are down the next day. A lot of the homeless brothers and sisters who were a success ten years ago, they are now on the street. Maybe ten years later they will be a success, but the crucial question is what is the quality of their life. — Cornel West

The good news is that these descriptive statistics give us a manageable and meaningful summary of the underlying phenomenon. That's what this chapter is about. The bad news is that any simplification invites abuse. Descriptive statistics can be like online dating profiles: technically accurate and yet pretty darn misleading. — Charles Wheelan