Rodilla Quotes & Sayings

I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look. — Mary Karr

Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. — Wendell Berry

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder are mirrors a waste of time? — Diane Keaton

The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer. — Evelyn Underhill

Any true revival can be proven by the fact that it changed the moral climate of an area or nation. — Leonard Ravenhill

When you work with people who are so passionate about their product it's kinda inspiring. — Dominic Cooper

But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order. — Tony Blair

Love is the deepest mode of knowing, because it is love that, while completely engaging with reality other than itself, affirms and celebrates that other-than-self reality. This is the mode of knowing that is necessary if we are to live in the new public world, the world launched at Easter, the world in which Jesus is Lord and Caesar isn't. — N. T. Wright

Whoever made Freud a vampire is getting a stake in the heart. — Missouri Dalton

She could have happily lived inside any nineteenth century novel. — Kate Atkinson

I often feel the pressure, from my peers and others, to come out and "take a stand" on a moral or social issue. Typically, I refuse to do so, or at least I refuse to do so in a way that will please my critics. On so many of the hard and divisive issues of our times, I don't close my eyes. I do stand for something: I stand for love. For if Jesus came, not to condemn the world, but to redeem it, how can we who bear the Name respond any differently? Yes, what I believe about all these moral and social issues matters, without a doubt. But these beliefs mean nothing, if my first and consuming conviction is not love for those who are different and believe differently than me. We have a choice: We can choose to show how "right" we are, or we can choose to love. Sometimes, it is impossible to do both at the same time. — Ronnie McBrayer

In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not the miniature ships, recreated in the minutest detail, but the walnutshell with a bird feather as mast and sail and a pebble as the captain. He also wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. For this "child in man" is the immortal creator within him. — Christian Morgenstern

My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the secret rulers of the world might do to me if I did! — Jon Ronson

The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion. — Muriel Spark

I am the same as I was, and do not alter; it is you who have changed. What has happened is this: you took my advice when you were still untouched by misfortune, and repented of your action when things went badly with you; it is because your own resolution is weak that my policy appears to you to be mistaken. — Thucydides