Shallowing The Shaft Quotes & Sayings

Man planned, but God prevailed. — Francine Rivers

Life should imitate romance literature far more often. — Charlaine Harris

Whether this has ever happened I know not, nor whether it ever can happen. For we see, as I have said a little way back, that a city which owing to its pervading corruption has once begun to decline, if it is to recover at all, must be saved not by the excellence of the people collectively, but of some one man then living among them, on whose death it at once relapses into its former plight; as happened with Thebes, in which the virtue of Epaminondas made it possible while he lived to preserve the form of a free Government, but which fell again on his death into its old disorders; the reason being that hardly any ruler lives so long as to have time to accustom to right methods a city which has long been accustomed to wrong. — Niccolo Machiavelli

What do you despise? By this are you truly known. — Frank Herbert

We might not be able to change our circumstances, but we CAN change our attitude. — Beth Moore

A human being is a life branching out from God — Masahisa Goi

Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason. — Ariel Gore

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is. — Erma Bombeck

For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures. — C.S. Lewis

Promise keeping is a powerful means of grace in a time when people hardly depend on each other to remember and live by their word. — Lewis B. Smedes

I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world. — Will Rogers

Maybe the real issue here is that we were not created to do life by ourselves. We were not given a sentence of solitary confinement and placed in a world of isolation, but from the moment we entered this human experience, it was clear there was a world waiting to be discovered, creatures which were there for our interaction.

And the spark inside us often has to be spoken to, to be touched by the soul of another. It's as if the spark is only visible through the lens of night vision, a set of goggles which only another human being can hand to us. — Stephen Lovegrove

Success-minded people need to understand that the small voice inside them is there for a reason. — John Patrick Hickey

We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible. — Lewis H. Lapham