Ognena Quotes & Sayings

When I drive into Augusta and down Magnolia Lane, there's just a spirit and nostalgia about it that you experience nowhere else. Why? Because it's the same place every year. — Billy Casper

The generosity, to me it's less about the money and more about the support and the idea that people still care and love what Chris stood for and love him. — Taya Kyle

To do something innovative means that you reject reason. — Jonathan Ive

No matter how much individuals do through their own efforts, they cannot actively purify themselves enough to be disposed in the least degree for the divine union of the perfection of love. God must take over and purge them in that fire that is dark for them, as we will explain. — San Juan De La Cruz

How did you get here, then?'
'We walked,' Maria said, 'hence the "dejected snowman" look we're all modelling. — Samantha Shannon

Some people believe that if they keep their heads down and stick to their safe routine and trust that nothing bad will befall them, then it won't. They see things happening to others, but they think they're different; they're special; it could never happen to them. They believe that nothing can get better, but also that nothing can get worse. They're cowards, in one way, because they won't fight, but they're also brave, because they're willing to accept their lot in life. Glupava smelost, we called it. Foolish courage. — Samantha Shannon

Men of prayer must be men of steel, for they will be assaulted by Satan even before they attempt to assault his kingdom. — Leonard Ravenhill

It takes an enormous humility to die. The strange thing is that everyone turns out to have it! — Emil Cioran

puts the cart before the horse. — Swami Vivekananda

Imma go to Starbucks in the morning for some coffee, if it ain't no girls there i won't buy no damn coffee! — Lil B

There is an intimate bond between the sufferings of Christ and the conflict and suffering in each Christian life. The daily dying of the Christian is a prolongation of Christ's own death. Paul writes in Romans 6:3, "Don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?" Baptism is not merely a momentary dying; it inaugurates a lifelong state of death to the world, to the flesh and to sin. Our daily death to selfishness, dishonesty and degraded love is our personal participation in the fellowship of His sufferings. — Brennan Manning

And, when I had travelled through these three chief points of the word of God, about the space of five years or more, I was caught in my present practice, and cast into prison, where I have lain above as long again to confirm the truth by way of suffering, as I was before in testifying of it according to the scriptures, in a way of preaching. — John Bunyan

Sometimes, 'no' really does mean no. — Staton Rabin