Schemas Examples Quotes & Sayings

I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter, no blessing of the Christian life becomes continually possessed unless we are men and women of regular, daily, unhurried secret lingerings in prayer. — J. Sidlow Baxter

To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes. — Hal Holbrook

We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as well. They wish for the world in which the United States was utterly dominant over its friends, its foes were to be shunned entirely, and the challenges were stark, moral, and vital. Today's world is messy and complicated. China is one of our biggest trading partners and our looming geopolitical rival. Russia is a surly spoiler, but it has a globalized middle class and has created ties in Europe. — Fareed Zakaria

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck. — Annie Dillard

Upon examination of a people's history, beware the story teller's motives. — T.F. Hodge

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple. — Swami Vivekananda

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad. — Charles De Secondat

If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it. — Mary McCarthy

September fattens on vines. Roses flake from the wall. The smoke of harmless fires drifts to my eyes. This is plenty. This is more than enough. — Geoffrey Hill

I never promised I would write the truth. I — Geraldine Brooks

For me, in those days, the great question was: Does God exist? Or doesn't God exist? Can we, by an attitude of faith, attain to a sense of community and a better world? Or, if God doesn't exist, what do we do then? What does our world look like then? In none of this was there the least political colour. — Ingmar Bergman

You're a thief, Echo.' The Ala Squeezed her hand, her grip strong despite her frailty. 'Steal him back. — Melissa Grey

Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable the drawing-room can't support the play by itself. — Mark Twain

Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet. — Frederick Douglass