Offenderconnect Quotes & Sayings

Thus far we have been able to protect [our children] from the deep and enduring traumas that scar the minds and selves of so many of the patients I see. How - how? - can I make it always so? — Christine Montross

The truth is that your spirits don't rise until you get way down. — Anne Lamott

I really want people to understand that nobody is perfect and that things happen in life beyond our control. — Lil' Kim

If you accept that your only job is to be the keeper of your life force, you will make powerful choices. — Debbie Ford

The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album. — J. Cole

The heart of the difference between cheap-grace doctrines of guilt-free existence and the Christian gospel is this: Modern chauvinism desperately avoids the message of guilt by treating it as a regrettable symptom. Christianity listens to the message of guilt by conscientious self-examination. Hedonism winks at sin. Christianity earnestly confesses sin. Secularism assumes it can extricate itself from gross misdeeds. Christianity looks to grace for divine forgiveness. Modern consciousness is its own fumbling attorney before the bar of conscience. Christianity rejoices that God himself has become our attorney. Modernity sees no reason to atone for or make reparation for wrongs. Christianity knows that unatoned sin brings on misery of conscience. Modern naturalism sees no meed for God. Christianity celebrates God's willingness to suffer four our sins and redeem us from guilt. — Thomas C. Oden

Whatever the reason, lying is a bad thing. — Kim Ji-hoo

The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion ... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspections ... It should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity. — Leo Tolstoy

I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness. — Billy Collins