Stolpa Family Quotes & Sayings

Predestination ... and salvation are clean taken out of our hands, and put in the hands of God only ... for we are so weak and so uncertain, that if it stood in us, there would of a truth be no man saved; the devil, no doubt, would deceive us.23 — Steven J. Lawson

Children who have the freedom to explore a variety of things and discard them when they no longer make sense do not feel like failures when they choose to drop something. Instead they see it as another experience from which to learn a bit about something and a lot about themselves. This is a much better attitude than the child who is forced to stay, being told to suck it up and stick it out, who begins to feel powerless and resentful. As an adult this child is more likely, for example, to stay in an unhappy career so as not to look or feel like a failure, though he will definitely feel trapped. — Pam Laricchia

I see he had his shorts on under the towel all along.
I think for a fact that she'd rather he'd of been stark naked under that towel than had on those shorts. She's glaring at those big white whales leaping round on his shorts in pure wordless outrage. — Ken Kesey

Orr's gods were nameless and unenvious, asking neither worship nor obedience. — Ursula K. Le Guin

There's three kinds of lies in this world:
There's lies ...
There's damned lies ...
And there's statistics — Benjamin Disraeli

He couldn't remember being a child and being able to define happiness: there was only misery, or fear, and the absence of misery or fear, and the latter state was all he had needed or wanted. — Hanya Yanagihara

The best of all lost arts is honesty — Mark Twain

Oh, to be old again," said the young corpse. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I love me. I love my uniqueness. — Lailah Gifty Akita