Papadimas Books Quotes & Sayings

The spoken word has come to dominate many Protestant forms of worship: the words of prayers, responsive readings, Scripture, the sermon, and so forth. Yet the spoken word is perhaps the least effective way of reaching the heart; one must constantly pay attention with one's mind. The spoken word tends to go to our heads, not our hearts. — Marcus J. Borg

We want you to visit our State of Excitement often. Come again and again. But for heaven's sake, don't move here to live. Or if you do have to move in to live, don't tell any of your neighbors where you are going. — Tom McCall

My eyes were glued on life, and they were full of tears. — Jack Kerouac

I'm attracted to the idea of drowning. Or rather the idea of jumping off and being enveloped by something, not bad or good, just enveloping.
When I was a kid, I had a moment when I got under the water, lying on the pool floor, and felt I could breathe. I've been trying to recreate that feeling ever since. — Florence Welch

Focusing on what you don't want instead of focusing on what do want gets you nowhere. Negativity makes a horrible motivator. Decide what you want and move in that direction. — Steve Maraboli

It is always a bit hypocritical when a defender who spends the whole game kicking you complains of being kicked. — Luis Suarez

Visualizing how you want to be is [an] effective way to move toward your goal. — Ellen Bass

I refused to love it. He was going to sell it too — Gail Carson Levine

I keep both of my Tonys on my mantle. They're in front of a mirror so if you look at just the right angle, it looks like I have four! — Swoosie Kurtz

It is good for me that I have been afflicted. — Mary Rowlandson

History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid. — Steve Berry

weren't more severe. You should be good to go in a couple days. I'll be back to check on you in an hour." Arnie waited for the doctor to shut the door before he plopped down in the chair next to the bed. — Kathleen Brooks

Stress is the trash of modern life-we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life. — Danzae Pace

Washing, this modern behind the ears nonsense. — A.A. Milne

Fuck. Me, "Vishous Breathed.
"I will so pass on that, "Lassiter muttered. — J.R. Ward