Mechrefe Quotes & Sayings

The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us. God calls us to His service and places tremendous responsibilities on us. He expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. God wants to use us as He used His own Son. — Oswald Chambers

Dream while you are awake; act while you are asleep. — Debasish Mridha

to explore the inner country of his own soul. — Jon Krakauer

[Taken from a BBC documentary]
Tariq was born in Lahore, now in Pakistan, then part of British-ruled India, in 1943. A Catholic school education did nothing to shake his life-long atheism, which he shared with his communist parents. — Tariq Ali

I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live. — Emma Thompson

If your hope dieth, your duties die, your endeavors die, your joys die, and your souls die. And if your hope be not acted, but lie asleep, it is next to dead, both in likenss and preparation( 585). — Richard Baxter

One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death. — Guy De Maupassant

Time for us began to be measured by moments when we spoke, and moments when we longed to speak again. — Richie Singh

What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, that God prefers his religion; seeing God prefers a tender conscience; seeing they that make themselves fools for the kingdom of heaven are wisest; and that the poor man that loveth Christ is richer than the greatest man in the world that hates him: Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to my salvation. — John Bunyan

The notion of evil for its own sake strikes me as boring
all these Dark Lords intent on creating wastelands packed with enslaved victims ... for what? — Steven Erikson

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population. — John O. Brennan