Odelice French Bakery Quotes & Sayings

Materialism wars against our souls in a twofold manner. First, it makes us discontent and envious of others. Second, it leads us to pamper and indulge our bodies so that we become soft and lazy. As we become soft and lazy in our bodies, we tend to become soft and lazy spiritually. When Paul talked about making his body his slave, so that after having preached to others he himself would not be disqualified, he was not thinking about physical disqualification, but spiritual. He knew well that physical softness inevitably leads to spiritual softness. When the body is pampered and indulged, the instincts and passions of the body tend to get the upper hand and dominate our thoughts and actions. We tend to do not what we should do, but what we want to do, as we follow the cravings of our sinful nature. — Jerry Bridges

Oh dear! A drunken infidel weaver! said Mr. Hale to himself. — Elizabeth Gaskell

But here is the heart of the moral issue for many of us. Simply put, those around the world who have contributed least to global warming and climate change will be the most and first to be impacted by the consequences of it all. Sadly, it's an old story. We, the affluent, create the problem, and the poor pay the price for our sins. It is wrong, and it is a sin-ours. — Jim Wallis

I read that I'm supposed to be Hollywood's new sex symbol . I think I'm the most unsexy thing that ever was. I'm open for everything of course, but I'm certainly not aware of being sexy. — Sharon Tate

This, I thought, is why we have comfort zones, because they are comfortable. What can possibly be gained by leaving them? — David Nicholls

For me it's about the character, not as much about the genre of it [movie]. I'm excited that I get to work and play interesting characters and I'm not just the girl who gets to play the girlfriend or the wife. I get to play real women who have struggles and troubles and passions and that's always what I hope to do no matter what format that lies in. — Ali Larter

If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Audiences are my best friends. You never tire of talking with your best friends. — Bob Hope

A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future. — Paul Craig Roberts

Is this all we are? Continual actions and reactions? No control over our future? [ ... ] If that's true, then life is one pathetic and sick game. — Katie McGarry

In fact, most of the time, things do not turn out as we expect. But the potential value of unexpected developments is rarely tapped. Instead, when things turn out contrary to our expectations, we go immediately into problem-solving mode and react, or just try harder - without taking the time to see whether this unexpected development is telling us something important about our assumptions. "This more prepared mental state is really where a lot of the longer-term payoff is," says Galloway. — Peter M. Senge

Successful people are action oriented and they have bigger libraries than TV's — Jim Rohn