Spatterware Quotes & Sayings

you only talk to yourself when you pray without believing and having faith in your prayers — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

What Saint has ever won his crown without first contending for it? — Jerome

Creative agitation can serve you well. Embrace it. Look into that dark hole for answers, not fear. — Chuck Wendig

When you have gone too far, as I think he did, the only mending is to come home. — Wendell Berry

Finally, Lutheran and Reformed traditions distinguish (without separating) three uses of the law: the first (pedagogical), to expose our guilt and corruption, driving us to Christ; the second, a civil use to restrain public vice; and the third, to guide Christian obedience. Believers are not "under the law" in the first sense. They are justified. However, they are still obligated to the law, both as it is stipulated and enforced by the state (second use) and as it frames Christian discipleship (third use). We never ground our status before God in our obedience to imperatives, but in Christ's righteousness; yet we are also bound to Christ, who continues to lead and direct us by his holy will. — Michael S. Horton

The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like. — Bruce Kent

I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one. — Mark Twain

I wrote a blog post about how the book is different from the blog and why I chose to go the self-publishing route. I wrote guests posts for blogs like Techcrunch, which helped immensely and for which I'm very grateful. I used my social networks: Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Google+, Quora, and Pinterest. — James Altucher

I was a rule-follower. I obeyed all forms of authority. I had never before encountered a situation where the authority was clearly wrong and I had to stand up for what was right. — Linda Kage