Skarbos Quotes & Sayings

The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds

I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone ... — Mickey Rourke

If grief could burn out
Like a sunken coal,
The heart would rest quiet,
The unrent soul
Be still as a veil;
But I have watched all night

The fire grow silent,
The grey ash soft:
And I stir the stubborn flint
The flames have left,
And grief stirs, and the deft
Heart lies impotent. — Philip Larkin

There's that thing that can happen to you when you meet somebody and you don't consider them extraordinary at all and then they do something like play the cello or write amazing poetry or sing and suddenly you look at them completely differently. — Yvonne Prinz

Thank God, He doesn't measure out grace in teaspoons. — Amy Carmichael

Sometimes you hide away a memory because it is so precious that you don't want to dilute it with the attempt to recount it. — Joshua Gaylord

Genetic tests," as Eric Topol, the medical geneticist described it, "are also moral tests. When you decide to test for 'future risk,' you are also, inevitably, asking yourself, what kind of future am I willing to risk?" Three case studies illustrate the power and the peril of using genes to predict "future risk. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious. — Jean Cocteau

By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis,
Dark behind it rose the forest,
Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees,
Rose the firs with cones upon them;
Bright before it beat the water,
Beat the clear and sunny water,
Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I pray you weep no more my love, let no tears fall for my demise, lift your face to the sky above, and let the sun dry your eyes... — Anthony Ryan