Rhoan Martin Quotes & Sayings

In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another. — Jeff Miller

Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career. — Placido Domingo

I'm caught in colliding currents of confusion, so desperate so desperate so desperate to be close so desperate to be far away. — Tahereh Mafi

And we must so discuss them as to bear in mind that this is the main hinge on which religion turns,3 so that we devote the greater attention and care to it. For unless you first of all grasp what your relationship to God is, and the nature of his judgment concerning you, you have neither a foundation on which to establish your salvation nor one on which to build piety toward God. But the need to know this will better appear from the knowledge itself. — John Calvin

As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological activity.' He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. — Thorstein Veblen

Sexuality, eroticism and desire are important for all of us. But that is also the contradiction. How can we speak about pictures and, for example, say no to this way of representing a woman's body? It's also a camera-and-object problem, of who is really guiding the camera. — Pipilotti Rist

Why, then, even when I advanced, was I so quick to retreat? Why did I always have ready a gracious smile, a happy laugh, when things went badly? Why, sooner or later, did I always find plausible excuses for those who made me suffer? — Elena Ferrante

I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those. — Sam Heughan

It is just as often the case, however, that men are violent solely from expedience, because they believe in no higher law than the demands of the moment, — David Bentley Hart

Berkouwer is to be commended for his careful avoidance of "the polarities of a mindless fideism and a faithless rationalism. — Bruce A. Demarest

Well, we can't sit around here worrying all night. I have to do something. "
"Why don't you call up another vampire hunter for tea?" he suggested drily. — Alyxandra Harvey

When we accept God's invitation to commune with Him through prayer, He will transform our hearts and change our lives. — Elizabeth George

Do not oppose because in opposing the tenderness of the feeling level is crushed. That is why we say Speak the Truth but see that you are speaking delicately. Do not speak non-truth and do not speak in a non sweet way, so that the feeling is nourished. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi