Stagnancy Kills Quotes & Sayings

[Y]ou have to stop loving and pursuing Christ in order to sin. When you are pursuing love, running toward Christ, you do not have opportunity to wonder, *Am I doing this right?* or *Did I serve enough this week?* When you are running toward Christ, you are freed up to serve, love, and give thanks without guilt, worry or fear. As long as you are running, you're safe. — Francis Chan

Only the good deed done for Christ's sake brings us the fruits of the Holy Spirit. All that is not done for Christ's sake, even though it be good, brings neither reward in the future life nor the grace of God in this life. That is why our Lord Jesus Christ said: 'He who gathers not with Me scatters' (Lk. 11:23). — Seraphim Of Sarov

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time. — Diane Lane

He yawned again, this time very loudly, and lazily opened his eyes.
"I'm sorry I woke you up," she said quickly.
"Was I sleeping?"
She nodded.
"So there really is a God," he muttered. — Julia Quinn

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights. — Garry Kasparov

Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth. — Fareed Zakaria

What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind. — Victor Hugo

What you do that makes you happy and that makes your family, the people that love you, their opinion counts more than anybody out there that is putting a category on you or defining you according to the old phantasmal. — Angelique Kidjo

I like the feeling of being dominated. It actually makes me feel safe as opposed to challenged. — Angelina Jolie

True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the destitute, it serves those that harm it, it binds up that which is wounded, it has become all things to all creatures. — Menno Simons

I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me. — Jack Black

To forget hard things try even harder things! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon