Petris Quotes & Sayings

We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other. — William Hazlitt

Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence, hearing the Word, seeing love. — Pope Benedict XVI

When something needs to be fixed, when I need something to change, my first and abiding instinct is to read. I think I can read my way to a solution. Or at least an evasion. — Lauren F. Winner

Some theologians will tell you that God's love is unconditional but...Forget the "but". God has no "buts and no ifs". God loves you unconditionally; his love is eternal and has no limits. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

For living men, the units of time always have a value, which increases in ratio to the strength of the internal resources of the person living through them; but for us, hours, days, months spilled out sluggishly from the future into the past, always too slowly, a valueless and superfluous material, of which we sought to rid ourselves as soon as possible ... For us, history had stopped. — Primo Levi

Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts. — Byron Katie

Day surfing is the act of filling a day with no money, and no plans, seeing where you wash up: head into town, start at the library, then onto the pet shop, watch the road construction team working, a run in the park, listen to a busker. Day surfing is a much larger challenge at home, where it can often be white knuckle survival. — Lucy H. Pearce

What I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and fears from friends, allies, around the world. — Hillary Clinton

But you - you notice mailboxes and wastebaskets and... and people. One who can see the ordinary is extraordinary indeed, Abigail Rook. - Jackaby — William Ritter

Men are not revived because they sing; they sing because they are revived. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I think it's my job to make any question interesting by coming up with a jazzy answer, otherwise I hardly deserve the spotlight, right? — Michelle Tea