Neulander Quotes & Sayings

According to the historian Arrian who reported the encounter, the ascetics beat their feet on the ground as Alexander passed them. When asked about the gesture, they said that Alexander occupied, despite his conquests, no more ground than that covered by the soles of his two feet. Like everyone else, he, too, was mortal, 'except that you are ambitious and reckless, traversing such a vast span of land, so remote from your home, enduring troubles and inflicting them upon others'.4 — Pankaj Mishra

When Jesus gave his disciples this prayer, he was giving them part of his own breath, his own life, his own prayer. The prayer is actually a distillation of his own sense of vocation, his own understanding of his Father's purposes. If we are truly to enter into it and make it our own, it can only be if we first understand how he set about living the Kingdom himself. — N. T. Wright

Who is telling us about the false self today? Who is even equipped tell us? Many clergy have not figured this out for themselves, since even ministry can be a career decision or an attraction to "religion" more than the result of an encounter with God or themselves. Formal religious status can maintain the false self rather effectively, especially if there are a lot of social payoffs like special respect, titles, salaries, a good self image, or nice costumes. It is no accident that the religious "Pharisees" became the symbolic bad guys in the Jesus story. — Richard Rohr

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. — L. Ron Hubbard

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind. — Bianca Jagger

The world is waiting for a practical demonstration of the Gospel of the grace of God! — Leonard Ravenhill

When we speak truth to power we are ignored at best and brutally suppressed at worst — Jeremy Hammond

The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli. — Johannes P. Muller

When we pass judgment, we hit a dead end. When we analyze something with an open mind, we can explore a concept into infinity. — Romina Russell

Everybody wants something at the expense of everybody else and nobody thinks much of the other fellow," Truman — David McCullough

I went to Texas a few times for gigs and adopted the cowboy look. Every man, at some point in his life, goes through a cowboy stage - everyone! Well, at least everyone that I look up to! — Theophilus London

I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction. — Rainbow Rowell

Tallest usable pogo stick — Guinness World Records

Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic. — John Whiting

Wisdom is spiritual discipline. — Lailah Gifty Akita