R Adams Cowley Quotes & Sayings

Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience. — Dalai Lama

If you're ever invited, fellow YA authors, go. It's the first YA con I've been to that was overwhelming populated by teens. Wonderful! — Justine Larbalestier

Interesting? The Science Channel is interesting ... the way you were looking at him was more like ... Wild Kingdom — S.C. Stephens

If we want that power to quicken our friends who are dead in sin, we must look to God, and not be looking to man to do it. If we look alone to ministers, if we look alone to Christ's disciples to do this work, we shall be disappointed. If we look to the Spirit of God and expect it to come from Him and Him alone, then we shall honor the Spirit, and the Spirit will do — Jim Cymbala

The ecstasy of seeing her versus the agony of losing her, a million births and a million deaths. — David Whitehouse

Success is not only for the elite. Success is there for those who want it, plan for it, and take action to achieve it. — Jim Brown

The way to become boring is to say everything. — Voltaire

Obama did not want to join a historically Christian black church in Chicago that took traditional Christian doctrines seriously. Rather, he sought out a liberal church that would help him advance his budding political career. Remnick notes that Obama could have joined "Reverend Arthur Brazier's enormous Pentecostal church on the South Side." But he didn't, and Brazier explained to Remnick why Obama didn't join his church: Reverend Wright and I are on different levels of Christian perspective. Reverend Wright is more into black liberation, he is more of a humanitarian type who sought to free African-Americans from plantation policies. My view was more on the spiritual side. I was more concerned, as I am today, with people accepting Jesus Christ. Winning souls for Christ. The civil-rights movement was an adjunct; as a Christian, you couldn't close your eyes to the injustice. But in my opinion the church was not established to do that. It was to win souls for Christ. — Phyllis Schlafly