Nockels Quotes & Sayings

Some people find no comfort in the prophets' vision of a future world. "The church has used that line for centuries to justify slavery, oppression, and all manner of injustice," they say. The criticism sticks because the church has abused the prophets' vision. But you will never find that "pie in the sky" rationale in the prophets themselves. They have scathing words about the need to care for widows and orphans and aliens, and to clean up corrupt courts and religious systems. The
people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass. — Philip Yancey

I know what I gave them; I don't know what they received. — Gautama Buddha

Human beings are very complicated. The person next to is weirder than you can possibly imagine. — Shana Mahaffey

Many critics always saw and heard that my style comes from Roy Eldridge, which is true. But for many things, not only how to play the trumpet but the way to choose the notes, how to play them and how to phrase all of them, I took that from Sweets [Edison]. He really brought something new to the trumpet. — Dizzy Gillespie

Where all was burnt to ash before them no fires were to be had and the nights were long and dark and cold beyond anything they'd yet encountered. Cold to crack the stones. To take your life. — Cormac McCarthy

His voice was like the roar of rushing waters, and the land was radiant with His glory. — Christy Nockels

For the purposes of this paper and discussion, I will equate public service with 'public interest' and 'public welfare', which seem to me to be virtually synonymous (Nockels, 1930). — Anonymous

People in love feel that way all the time, like they don't know what they've done to deserve each other. — Marisa De Los Santos

I actually like, love, and respect myself, and I try not to take anything too seriously. — Jen Kirkman

I had never deserved to be forgiven in the first place when I aas converted. I could do nothing to merit God's favour, His grace, His love. If all I had ever known was unmerited and undeserved grace, how could I then forfeit that which I never earned?... Was I too proud, in some strange, inverted way to humble myself to accept an unmerited forgiveness? I know that it was all of grace, yet my inner being wanted the right to do something to merit it. I was trying to work out my own salvation, to earn God's forgiveness, to prove the sincerity of my repentance...At last I knew that it was true. It was not based on my feeling or on my emotions. It was not dependent on my faith or my obedience. In no way could I merit or deserve it. He loved me. He knew me through and through, better than I knew myself, and yet still, He loved me. Christ died on Calvary to tell me that. Christ lives in Heaven, an unceasing intercessor on my behalf to make that love real to me in my experience. — Helen Roseveare

So many times we come to Jesus in worship and ask Him for things that He already IS and has already done ... What a concept to come into worship knowing who we are approaching ... the absolute fullness of God, pleased to dwell in this Jesus whom we worship. He's already broken the chains ... already seated us with Him ... already invited us 'into the glorious'. — Christy Nockels