Raccolto West Quotes & Sayings

God destines us for an end beyond the grasp of reason. — Thomas Aquinas

There is, then, a great gulf between the understanding that God accepts us because of our efforts and the understanding that God accepts us because of what Jesus has done. Religion operates on the principle "I obey - therefore I am accepted by God." But the operating principle of the gospel is "I am accepted by God through what Christ has done - therefore I obey. — Timothy Keller

If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love. — Mahalia Jackson

People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that. — Libba Bray

There's nothing wrong with making the best of one's declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that we're seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem. — Aubrey De Grey

Nobody wants to read about your life. Who cares? — David Spade

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom. — Ben Carson

Users turned on their phones and went straight to WeChat to chat with friends, read their posts, and install apps within WeChat, effectively making it an alternate operating system. — Shaun Rein

The same that oft-times hath
charm'd magic casements,
opening on the foam
of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn. — John Keats

I think writers can get too attached to these worlds they create, these characters they make real, so that, instead of ending the story where the story's asking to end, they draw it out, unable to let go. — Stephen Graham Jones