Pregler Jenks Quotes & Sayings

I was going to go to church, but I decided to get doughnuts instead. — Janet Evanovich

It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour. — Baron De Montesquieu

While Taij and I were together, I made sure to keep up my appearance since his lack of an erection always made me feel like something was wrong with me. — Jessica N. Watkins

My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority. — Chris Hayes

Every period had its style: why was it that our period was the only one to be denied a style? By "style" was meant ornament. I said, "weep not. Behold! What makes our period so important is that it is incapable of producing new ornament. We have out-grown ornament, we have struggled through to a state without ornament. Behold, the time is at hand, fulfilment awaits us. Soon the streets of the cities will glow like white walls! Like Zion, the Holy City, the capital of heaven. It is then that fulfilment will have come. — Adolf Loos

[A]ll her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value. — Georges Bernanos

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Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure. — James Madison

It is the last place heading south before the landscape gets terminally dusty, glum and thinly settled, so it has an oasis or frontier atmosphere and a sense that the cappuccinos are a bit hard-won. — Simon Winder

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses. — George Eliot

If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher. — Charles Bent

Joe Thorn writes about "suffering well," showing us the foundations of resolute peace: God does not promise to rid your life of affliction and difficulty. He does, however, offer to give you the grace needed to suffer well, and through grace to discover the riches and beauty of the gospel. It isn't wrong to ask God to relieve you of your pain, but it is more important that in the midst of the pain you rely on the promise of God to work such experiences for his glory and your good - to use these times as a means of perfecting your faith, strengthening your spirit, and transforming your life in such a way that you are becoming more like Jesus.1 — Matt Chandler