Miezi Per Te Quotes & Sayings

Hope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do. — Katherine Paterson

The general never regretted his early marriage, or regarded it as a foolish youthful escapade; and he so respected and feared his wife that he was very near loving her. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Being more missional might actually mean doing fewer things. There is a Latin American proverb that says, "If you don't know where you're coming from, and if you don't know where you're going, then any bus will do." Some congregations are clearly riding too many busesl What they need is not more flurry, but more focus. Becoming disciplined about being a missional church can provide such a focus.[16 — Michael Frost

It is on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular. — David Hume

Soil, blood, seed- Let me draw strength from you. Let it be enough. — Emily Whitman

Industrial agriculture, built according to the single standard of productivity, has dealt with nature, including human nature, in the manner of a monologist or an orator. It has not asked for anything, or waited to hear any response. It has told nature what it wanted, and in various clever ways has taken what it wanted. And since it proposed no limit on its wants, exhaustion has been its inevitable and foreseeable result. This, clearly, is a dictatorial or totalitarian form of behavior, and it is as totalitarian in its use of people as it is in its use of nature. Its connections to the world and to humans and the other creatures become more and more abstract, as its economy, its authority, and its power become more and more centralized. — Wendell Berry

And every heavy burden you are called upon to lift hides within itself a miraculous secret of strength. — Lettie B. Cowman

The Christian mission has only one focus: to change individual's lives so they can change the world. — Pope Francis

Each time we choose to step down for others that is a form of death to self. — Sunday Adelaja

The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end. — Neal Shusterman