Rallentatore Quotes & Sayings

What is the reason that many thousands of Christian workers in the world have not a greater influence? Nothing save this - the prayerlessness of their service. In the midst of all their zeal in the study and in the work of the Church, of all their faithfulness in preaching and conversation with the people, they lack that ceaseless prayer which has attached to it the sure promise of the Spirit and the power from on high. It is nothing but the sin of prayerlessness which is the cause of the lack of a powerful spiritual life! — Andrew Murray

The more one approaches madness, the more one equally approaches the truth, and if one does not fall into the former, one must end up necessarily in the latter. — Rene Girard

Ah, today is not really a good day, but my afterthought suggests it is, since I have had the chance to learn that life cannot be exemplary all the time. It is good to be taken aback once in a while because only then, would I value the state of being nonchalant. — Aishah Madadiy

When Black and White are colors and not races, people will still fall in love and discriminate between partners and feel sad and bad and need art that breaks your heart and takes you to those places where pain becomes beauty. — Marlene Dumas

There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook. — Norman Douglas

The greatest managers in the world do not have much in common. But despite their differences, these great managers do share one thing: Before they do anything else, they first break all the rules of conventional wisdom. — Marcus Buckingham

Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical. — W. Somerset Maugham

If a being from another world were to ask you, "How can I learn what it's like to be human?" a good answer would be, "Study mythology. — Joseph Campbell

In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to provide even one clock in my room. — Albert Einstein

I don't snack all the time, but I do sometimes drink l more than I should. — Gerard Depardieu

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. — Jacob Riis

No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists. — Robert Genn

Remember this... No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of stress can alter the future, so relax an live each day as it comes. — Karen Gibbs

The agony of the dead is with us, and we hear their screams and walk among their ghosts. We cannot avert our eyes or plug up our ears. We must bear witness and speak for those who cannot speak. We have only one chance to get it right. — Ken Liu