Pentecostes Quotes & Sayings

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35) — Rollo May

My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard. — Gene Hackman

You know, eternal life does not start when we go to heaven. It starts the moment you reach out to Jesus. He never turns His back on anyone. And He is waiting for you ... — Corrie Ten Boom

Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode. — Richard Baxter

We no longer have the luxury of spending our energy on anything that does not lead us and our families to Christ. — Sheri Dew

Our near absolute dominion over nature has, however, confronted us with one brilliant and ironic and inescapable insight. The decryption of DNA is not only useful in putting a merciful but overdue end to theories of creationism and racism but also enlightening in instructing us that we are ourselves animals. — Christopher Hitchens

This is what a castle sounded like when it died, and he knew he would never forget it. — Steven Poore

Normally leaving one's country is a grave step: it involves leaving the society and culture in which we have been raised,, the society and culture whose language we use in speech and thought to express and understand ourselves, our aims, goals and values; the society and culture, customs, and conventions we depend on to find our place in the social world. In large part, we affirm our society and culture, and have an intimate and inexpressible knowledge of it, even though much of it we may question, if not reject. The government's authority cannot, then be freely accepted in the sense that the bonds of society and culture, of history and social place of origin, begin so early to shape our life and are normally so strong that the right of emigration does not suffice to make accepting its authority free, politically speaking, in the way that liberty of conscience suffices to make accepting ecclesiastical authority free. — John Rawls

It was not so much that a door opened as that I suddenly found that a door had been open all along which I had only just then stumbled upon. — Frederick Buechner

I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it. — Susan Sontag

To pine for an alternative past is a waste of energy. In the pristine world of your infinite spiritual self, there is no sin or negative energy. There is only compassion, learning, and unconditional love and forgiveness. Remind yourself and those around you of this fact. In the light of God, everything is healed and seen to be perfect. — Stuart Wilde

We shall live, love and be happy as mortals can be — Jude Morgan