Sapphire Birch Quotes & Sayings

Holiness consists in doing God's will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the human giving themselves to each other. The only thing Jesus asks of us is to give ourselves to him, in total poverty and total self-forgetfulness. — Mother Teresa

We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone. — Zig Ziglar

With Twitter, it's a little harder to tell jokes that somebody hasn't heard already. You have all these people out there sharing their opinions and telling jokes in real time, and by the time you get on, somebody's already done some version of what you're trying to do. — Frank Caliendo

I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones. — Daphne Du Maurier

The universe, it seemed, was full to brimming with lonesome places. — Robert Charles Wilson

The air in Provence is impregnated with the aroma of garlic, which makes it very healthful to breathe. — Alexandre Dumas

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind. — Woody Allen

Alyssa couldn't tear her gaze from him as the firelight played over the hard edges of him. Once he'd been the poster boy for clean-cut military, now he'd gone all tatted up sexy danger. — Jennifer Apodaca

It would be so simple to let go.
It would be so much easier to let go.
So much less painful. — Erin Morgenstern

Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may not have given a reporter Plame's name, he clearly identified her by telling the reporter that Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA agent. — Louise Slaughter

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too. — Joyce Cary

When one writes "the last apple on the tree," or "the one small peach as pink as dawn," one is beginning to deal with particulars - to develop texture ...
Such texture is vital to all poetry. It is what makes the poem an experience, something much more than mere statement. — Mary Oliver

Maybe these cards aren't such a great idea. Can you imagine if everyone had the power to mess with everyone else's lives? Chaos.'
But of course, this IS the problem. We already have that power over each other. — Nicola Yoon

I text nonstop, and I love emoji. I'm also on the phone quite a bit for work - probably more than 10 calls per day. — Evan Spiegel

Given a choice, it seems like pity would be easier to bear than mockery, but that's not true. Mockery hardens defenses; pity slips through, finds the softest places you have, and slices to the bone. Pity will break you, every time. — Erica O'Rourke