Reoccurring Spelling Quotes & Sayings

I think dating courtesies are common courtesies that should be practiced in most all civilized encounters. I pine for the days of good, old-fashioned manners. — Karen Marie Moning

It isn't necessary to trust God when we have full understanding and knowledge of what He is doing on our behalf ... Trust is needed in those times when, for whatever reason, we are not hearing from God as clearly as we would like. — Joyce Meyer

We need to be poor! Let us live an ordinary life, but, beloved, let us live it with a passionate love for God. Become a mystery. Stretch one hand out to God, the other to your neighbour. Be cruciform. ... Christ's cross will be our revolution and it will be a revolution of love! — Catherine Doherty

Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys, dead ends, and extinction. — Stephen Jay Gould

You're contumacious. — Jewel E. Ann

You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. — Abbie Hoffman

One year ago I left my home for school and never returned. — Malala Yousafzai

power is the ability to influence the behavior of others to get the outcomes one wants. — Joseph S. Nye Jr.

Cats know everything there is to know about meditation. — Veronique Vienne

I'd like my son to remember me as a good dad. — Slim Whitman

If you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the inability or desire to organize around those priorities; or (3) the lack of discipline to execute around them? ... Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe that is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds. They haven't really internalized Habit 2 [Begin with the end in mind]. — Stephen Covey

Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny ... To work out our identity in God. — Thomas Merton

O Lord ...
Once I wanted You so much
I didn't even dare walk past Your house-
And now
I am not even worthy to be let in — Rabia Basri

Today I saw you and spoke to you for the first time.
It was like an earthquake; everything in me was overturned, the graves of my heart were opened and my own nature was strange to me.
I am forty, and I believed I had reached the autumn of life.
I had wandered far, known much and lived many lives. The Lord had spoken to me, manifesting Himself in many ways; to me angels had revealed themselves and I had not believed them. But when I saw you I was compelled to believe, because of the miracle that happened to me. — Mika Waltari