Retha Jones Quotes & Sayings

Oh, God, give me grace for this day. Not for a lifetime, nor for next week, nor for tomorrow, just for this day. Direct my thoughts and bless them Direct my work and bless it. Direct the things I say and give them blessing, too. Direct and bless everything that I think and speak and do. So that for this one day, just this one day, I have the gift of grace that comes from your presence ... — Marjorie Holmes

Without faith, you are as a crow who has forgotten his ability to fly; you peck at the dark, muddy earth when the bright mountains lie before you. — Seth Adam Smith

How to do half-hour comedy innovatively is something I do pride myself on. We invented it with 'I Love Lucy.' — Lucille Ball

Making an independent documentary film is so hard that usually, the usual model is that your film becomes a model for advocacy, so you can enlist that support group and get as much juice out of your film as possible. That's just practically, financially, what you need to do. — Tim Hetherington

Some things are free, Rania. My love for you is free. All you have to do is take it. Accept it. — Jasinda Wilder

There is a widespread notion that just passing through death transforms human character. Discipleship is not needed. Just believe enough to "make it." But I have never been able to find any basis in scriptural tradition or psychological reality to think this might be so. What if death only forever fixes us as the kind of person we are at death? What would one do in heaven with a debauched character or a hate-filled heart? — Dallas Willard

For every person who died in the westward migration prior to the Civil War from Native Americans attacking, the stuff of American legends, thousands, maybe tens of thousands died from water holes polluted by cholera and typhoid . . . but that doesn't make for a good movie. — William R. Forstchen

Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish. — Rafael Sabatini

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter. — Blaise Pascal

I follow my own head. And if I'm determined to do something, then I'll make sure that I make it happen. — Laura Dekker

I like you however you come. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

I burned my own damn finger pokin' someone else's fire — Kacey Musgraves

The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart. — Horace Mann

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. Their — David McCullough

I don't care how intelligent or attractive someone is, if he zaps your energy, he isn't for you. True chemistry is more than intellectual compatibility. Beyond surfaces, you must be intuitively at ease. — Judith Orloff