Rueben Quotes & Sayings

We live in a world convinced that security is the most reliable context for freedom. The bitter irony of this conviction is that the havens of security we create are unable to provide the freedom we seek. The quest for national, economic, or personal security too often generates compulsive patterns of life at the expense of genuine freedom. Christian tradition offers an alternative. In biblical perspective, it is obedience rather than security that forms the proper context for freedom. Thus, the Christian vision of freedom is focused through the lens of a paradox: "Whoever cares for his own safety is lost; but if a man will let himself be lost for my sake, he will find his true self" (Matt. 16:25, NEB). - John S. Mogabgab, "Editor's Introduction," Weavings (May/June 1988) — Rueben P. Job

You're never healing the level you're on. You're always healing the level you came from. For example, you know things today that you didn't know in your first marriage. — Iyanla Vanzant

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning. — Vincent Van Gogh

You're talent, and we're the talent scouts. — Janet Morris

I can't say I'm surprised I was successful. I was determined - and I got it. — Cilla Black

If you actually have to engage with somebody who's superior to you and actually battle with them, struggle with them, I think it's more interesting, and funnier for the audience. — Peter Capaldi

When you ask one friend to dine, give him your best wine. When you ask two, the second best will do. — Matthew Pearl

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. — Henry Hazlitt

We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for. — Roy Clark

Every so often an author comes along and changes the world. I am not that author! — Rachel Rueben

More out of alarm than inspiration, she flung the cloth she'd been using on the bookcases toward his head. The marquis snatched the fabric as it connected with his nose. A puff of dust settled in his hair as one corner of the cloth slapped against his forehead. The stunned look on his face was the last thing Amelia saw before she shoved Jane down the corridor. — Kristi Ann Hunter

For now, it is enough to face the reality that it is possible, as individual Christians and also in our churches, to be doing well in many areas, and yet still miss what is perhaps the most urgent matter on the agenda of God in our generation, the task of reaching men and women everywhere with the knowledge of salvation in Jesus Christ. — Ross Paterson

I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink. — Kinky Friedman