Sherine Abeyratne Quotes & Sayings

To awaken a new longing for holiness: this is the great pastoral challenge that we have before us, if we want to be faithful to God's plan and also to respond to the yearnings and hopes of the peoples of America and of all peoples on earth ... — Crescenzio Sepe

Everything I did with my life I did so that I could give my parents everything they didn't have because of me. — Richard Simmons

When something comes up, and it's interesting, and I have the time, I'll do it. — Flea

Obedience makes our heart receptive to what God has already done. It doesn't move Him; His heart is always aflame toward us. Generally, this revelation is not taught correctly by well-meaning ministers. The incorrect way that obedience is taught causes people to be overly-introspective, obsessing over their inadequacies and failures. It breeds SELF-ESTEEM issues instead of promoting CHRIST-ESTEEM wholeness. It breeds a destructive DEMAND-CONSCIOUSNESS (law) instead of a liberating SUPPLY-CONSCIOUSNESS (grace). — Brian Williams

Nothing is boring if you are aware of it. It may be irritating, but it is not boring. If it is pleasant the pleasure will not fail so long as you are aware of it. Being aware is the hardest work the soul can do, I think. — Ursula K. Le Guin

If they finally move, is it because they are warm enough, or is it that they are stiff, or bored? — Lydia Davis