Meetinghouse School Quotes & Sayings

Those who walk in radical obedience have made themselves ready for the storm, and they will overcome. — Bob Sorge

If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own. — Stephen Covey

I lit a candle in a Catholic church for the first time that afternoon. Me, a Presbyterian. I lit a candle in the warm, dark, waxy-smelling air of Saint Adelbert's. I put it beside the one that Mrs. Baker lit. I don't know what she prayed for, but I prayed that no atomic bomb would ever drop on Camillo Junior High or the Quaker meetinghouse or the old jail or Temple Emmanuel or Hicks Park or Saint Paul's Episcopal School or Saint Adelbert's. I prayed for Lieutenant Baker, missing in action somewhere in the jungles of Vietnam near Khesanh. I prayed for Danny Hupfer, sweating it out in Hebrew school right then. I prayed for my sister, driving in a yellow bug toward California - or maybe she was there already, trying to find herself. And I hoped that it was okay to pray for a bunch of things with one candle. — Gary D. Schmidt

I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles. — Patrick Swayze

Don't live your life to please other people. — Oprah Winfrey

An author's characters do what he wants them to do. — W. E. B. Griffin

I've always believed," she replied, "that if God is going to be strict about anything, that He will be strict about the rules concerning hate, not love. And if two people love each other, that has to be better than two people hating each other. Beyond that, it's for God to sort out. I'm too frail to be such a judge. — J.M. Redmann