Semlos Flashlights Quotes & Sayings

I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am. — Bebe Neuwirth

So Allah has to deny perfect justice in order to be merciful. There's no penalty for wrongdoing if you have done enough good things to offset it. But true justice doesn't work that way, not even on earth. If someone is convicted of fraud, the judge doesn't say, 'Well, he was a kind Little League coach. That offsets it.' In Islam, Allah is not perfectly just, because if he were, people would have to pay the penalty for every sin, and no one would get into paradise. That's what perfect justice is." I pushed the vegetables around on my neglected plate. "But I thought God is forgiving. You're implying that because of justice, God can't forgive." "God is forgiving. God wants to forgive people more than anything in the world, to restore them to himself. What I'm saying is that God's desire to forgive doesn't negate his perfect justice. Someone has to pay the penalty for sins. God's justice demands it. — David Gregory

There is no human law or law of God or national law that states that any healthy being has to permit the snake to eat the mouse - but on the other hand, it is perfectly justified to defend the mouse. — Ernst Kaltenbrunner

The Spy Act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing. — Cliff Stearns

The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach. — George Eliot

First generation Indian immigrants are mass guinea pigs. When a race that subsisted on plants for centuries subsists on a meat-dominated diet, it scares me to know what's in store for them — Siddharth Katragadda

You must seek to know thyself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Talk to me. I'll believe anything. — Albert Goldbarth

I want people to say when No. 9 was out on the field, he did everything humanly possible to win a ballgame. — Steve McNair

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. — Chuck Palahniuk

The full concept of discipleship includes sharing our faith, leading people to Christ, and helping them to mature in their faith. But somewhere along the line, the church has separated evangelism from discipleship. — Greg Laurie

And, for the first few months after her surgeries, Holly had felt, horribly, as if she'd been turned into a machine, an unkillable robot. She had terrible dreams in which she was searching for her body parts on shelves lined with thousands of other body parts, floating in thousands of jars. In the dreams, Holly was convinced that her soul had been located in one of those body parts, and now her soul was trapped for eternity in formaldehyde and glass. — Laura Kasischke