Raymondville Tx Quotes & Sayings

When God has become a business, though, it is very hard for people to get the confidence to realize that God is really a personal God, a God who touches us as individuals, a God who is as close to us as we choose to see. We have learned well the remoteness of a God who lived for so long behind communion rails and altar steps and seminary doors and chancery desks that the experience of God, however strong, has always been more private secret than public expectation. — Joan D. Chittister

If you go through the hot furnace of hardships, you will be refined like gold. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Gus really loved you, you know," he said. "I know." "He wouldn't shut up about it." "I know," I said. "It was annoying." "I didn't find it that annoying," I said. — John Green

The book fascinated him, or more exactly it reassured him. In a sense it told him nothing that was new, but that was part of the attraction. — George Orwell

We are small, but the universe is not. — Brian K. Vaughan

Everything happens for a reason? I don't see it that way at all. To me, only the first part is clear: Everything happens. Then other things happen, and other things, still. Out of each of these moments, we make something. Any number of somethings, in fact.

What comes of our own actions becomes the "reason." It is no predestined thing. We may arrive where we are by way of a specific path - we can take just one at a time - but it's never the only one that could have led us to our destination. Nor does a single event, even a string of them, point decisively to a single landing spot. There are infinite possible versions of our lives. Meaning is not what happens, but what we do with what happens when it does. — Jessica Fechtor

Change Your Posture! Change Your LIFE! — D. Nicole Williams

Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title. — Robin S. Sharma

Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I don't make mistakes. I make predictions which immediately turn out to be wrong. — Tony Benn

Critics get a little carried away with what someone should have done, rather than what he did. — Duke Ellington

There are many stories I've wanted to write that I'm simply not able to - sometimes I haven't found the way in yet, and it doesn't matter how hard I try. — Mary J. Miller