Mennonites Religion Quotes & Sayings

The difference between the dinosaurs and us is that we have a space program and we can vote. — Phil Plait

After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for blacks possessing firearms. — Niger Innis

Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is like a black forest, somethingyou can enter, something you can walk about in. There you can lose yourself: you can lose yourself. And once inside, you find such wonderful glades, such beautiful, sunlit places. — Minnie Maddern Fiske

While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very grateful to Almighty God, who gives us victory. — Abraham Lincoln

Love wakes much and sleeps little and, in sleeping, does not sleep. It faints is not weary; it is restricted in its liberty and is great freedom. It sees reasons to fear and does not fear, but, like an ember or a spark of fire, flames always upward, by the fervor of its love, toward God, and through the special help of grace is delivered from all perils and dangers — Thomas A Kempis

That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimms, and makes it indistinct As water is in water — William Shakespeare

I care more about getting this right [NHS reform] than I do about getting it done. — Nick Clegg

This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness. — Kate DiCamillo

In retrospect, I am very nearly as sharp as I pretend to be. — Lyndsay Faye

It is a strange thing to read a letter after the writer is dead - a bitter-sweet thing, in which pain and comfort are strangely mingled. — Lucy Maud Montgomery