Romeda Arsanjani Quotes & Sayings

When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless ... — Ani DiFranco

By "moral discipline," I mean self-discipline based on moral standards. Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard. It rejects the self-absorbed life in favor of developing character worthy of respect and true greatness through Christlike service. — D. Todd Christofferson

We seem to crave privilege, merited not by our works but by our birth, by the mere fact that, say, we are humans and born on Earth. We might call it the anthropocentric - the 'human-centered' - conceit. This conceit is brought close to culmination in the notion that we are created in God's image: The Creator and Ruler of the entire Universe looks just like me. My, what a coincidence! How convenient and satisfying! — Carl Sagan

Salvation is revealed to people when we show and express to them the love of Jesus Christ. — Sunday Adelaja

The Greeks were so committed to ideas as supernatural forces that they created an entire group of goddesses (not one but nine) to represent creative power; the opening lines of both The Iliad and The Odyssey begin with calls to them. These nine goddesses, or muses, were the recipients of prayers from writers, engineers, and musicians. Even the great minds of the time, like Socrates and Plato, built shrines and visited temples dedicated to their particular muse (or muses, for those who hedged their bets). Right now, under our very secular noses, we honor these beliefs in our language, as the etymology of words like museum ("place of the muses") and music ("art of the muses") come from the Greek heritage of ideas as superhuman forces. — Scott Berkun

Prefer the specific to the general, the definite to the vague, the concrete to the abstract. — William Strunk Jr.

The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. — Suzanne Collins

There have been many times in my life when I felt like I'd never pick up the pieces, but God has always given me the power to do it. — Terri Blackstock

Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where there was nothing but an aching grey blankness ... — Diana Gabaldon

Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance. — Rainer Maria Rilke

It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it. — Elizabeth Kostova

Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways. — Anonymous

Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It's time to start thinking. — Ernest Rutherford