Stairwell Motivational Quotes & Sayings

Some people find no comfort in the prophets' vision of a future world. "The church has used that line for centuries to justify slavery, oppression, and all manner of injustice," they say. The criticism sticks because the church has abused the prophets' vision. But you will never find that "pie in the sky" rationale in the prophets themselves. They have scathing words about the need to care for widows and orphans and aliens, and to clean up corrupt courts and religious systems. The
people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass. — Philip Yancey

Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious. — Kobe Bryant

The space within becomes the reality of the building. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Someone steals my good reputation from me, then he really does make me truly poor, and steals something that doesn't even make him any richer. — William Shakespeare

They want you to think that darkness or evil is only something that gets inflicted on you by the outside world, but I know better, and I think the freak does, too. Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins. — Alexandra Bracken

The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career. — Rupert Everett

Be creative. Unlock your imagination. Open your noggin. Do anything. — Scott Schafer