Supendend Quotes & Sayings

If you're famous enough, the rules don't apply. — Maureen Dowd

To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I'm the enforcer. I'm the one who writes them a letter and says 'Shape up!' He writes, 'You're marvelous.' — Barbara Bush

Get plenty of education. Lead you class in all things. Keep your body clean and strong. Keep your opinions to yourself. — Kurt Vonnegut

We are not really surprised that God has redeemed us. Somewhere
deep inside, in the secret chambers of our hearts, we harbor the notion that God owes us His mercy. Heaven would not be quite the same if we were excluded from it. We know that we are sinners, but we are surely not as bad as we could be. There are enough redeeming features to our personalities that if God is really just, He will include us in salvation. What amazes us is justice, not Brice. — R.C. Sproul

There are very interesting controversies within evolution; however, whether evolution occurs is not one of them. It definitely does. — Richard Dawkins

The serene confidence with which Western journalists and liberal academics prescribe solutions to our [Singapore's] problems is a source of constant wonder to us. — Goh Keng Swee

Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire, free of grasping, free of ego, free of the self-contraction. And through that opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even touch eternity; who can say otherwise, when time itself is supendend in the clearing that great art creates in your awareness? — Ken Wilber

I remember as a child of eight being told by a young friend that I had killed Christ. That was news to me. It's a common experience for the Jewish young. Should later generations of Germans be burdened with the guilt arising from the profound inhumanity of their ancestors? Revenge may be sweet, but guilt is non-transferable. Still, hatreds survive with the persistence of cockroaches. — Sid Fleischman

It was a job, and I was just doing my job. — Johnny Ramone

So that I could better remember these necessary attributes, I have put them in acrostic form as a memory tool:
P - praise
R - repentance which is acknowledged through confession
A - appreciation or thanksgiving
Y - yielding to God's Will
E - entreaty or supplication
R - renewal of fellowship with God — Teresa Hampton

Your silence is loudest to those who love you most. — Steve Maraboli

Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time.
Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation. — Idries Shah

How do you recruit and keep volunteers? Part of the answer is that we clarify the win. Countless individuals quit working in churches every year — Andy Stanley

Judging yourself is just as bad as judging someone else. Our thoughts are a powerful force, and what you pay attention to you empower. Judging yourself only serves to strengthen your shortcomings. — Jon Gabriel

The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel. — Martin Luther