Oberengadin Quotes & Sayings

The simplest definition of prayer is communicating with God. That's it. Did you miss it? Let me say it again. Prayer is simply communicating with God. That one uncomplicated thought began to revolutionize my whole prayer life. What is communication? It's transferring a thought, feeling, emotion, or idea to another person. So prayer is giving God my thoughts, feelings, emotions, and ideas, by whatever means works. It doesn't have to be formal. It doesn't have to be long and dry. It's simply communicating. — Craig Groeschel

I decided to try celibacy because I heard it would help the meditation, and I tried meditation because I heard it would help with the music. So, it all really comes back to the music. — Rivers Cuomo

He came around to open my door and held out his hand to me. The gesture said more than what the eye could see. He could have easily lifted me out of the car without me being able to do anything to stop him but instead he was asking for my consent. To accept what was about the happen. — B.B. Reid

I put a hand up to cup his cheek, warm and lightly stubbled. I didn't fool myself that this was paradise or even a refuge from the war - wars tended not to stay in one place but moved around, much in the manner of cyclones and even more destructive where they touched down. But for however long it lasted, this was home, and now was peace. — Diana Gabaldon

The Six Million Dollar Man was one thing, but I wanted to keep my own parts. — Lee Majors

When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state — Thomas Jefferson

I've remained a virgin for you. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Don't blame god for your pitiful condition, its a test that god wants you to excel. — Srinivas Shenoy

I long ago lost track of the number of times the Obama administration has assured everyone that its vacuum-cleaner approach to electronic surveillance does not threaten the privacy or the rights of Americans. — Andrew Rosenthal

Our freedom must be buttressed by a homogeny equally and unchallengeably free, no matter what color they are, so that all the other inimical forces everywhere
systems political or religious or racial or national
will not just respect us because we practice freedom, they will fear us because we do. — William Faulkner

When there is no expectation there is no possibility of frustration. Expectation is the mother of all frustrations; expectation gone, frustration disappears. And when there is no frustration in your life, life really becomes a bed of roses. Then God is a constant blessing; he goes on raining his grace, his beauty on you. — Rajneesh

I find you can often find humor just by turning something upside-down. Like a ... small child. — Emo Philips

Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Democracy is more dangerous than fire. Fire can't vote itself immune to water. — Michael Z. Williamson

I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day. — Tana French