Tarnai Piheno Quotes & Sayings

The victory is not only the pathway of celebration but also to take the greater degree of responsibility for those who were victimised. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Inside every bent stick there is a bow, and in the wake of every arrow's passing there lies a story. — Brian J. Sorrells

A cord of three strands is not quickly broken (Ecclesiastes 4:12). Obeying God is too hard. Trying to understand, and obey, the Scriptures will break you. If you go it alone. — Ben Reed

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors. — James Buchan

The powerful changes that happen in the life of a disciple never come from the disciple working hard at doing anything. They come from arriving at a place where Jesus is everything, and we are simply overwhelmed with the gift. Sometimes it seems as if God loves us too much. His love goes far beyond our ability to stop being moral, religious, obedient, and victorious, and we just collapse in his arms.
Out of the gospel that Jesus is the only Mediator between God and humanity comes a Christian life that looks like Jesus, a life Jesus would recognize. It's a life that looks like Jesus, because Jesus does everything, and all we do is accept his gift. And to accept his gift, we have to give up trying to be Jesus.
Out of that discovery comes a Christian life that is free from the tyranny of unnecessary adjectives - even my preferred modified, Jesus-shaped - and simply follows after the One who loves us beyond words or repayment. — Michael Spencer

Taken from the musical play, "Scallawalli and Petwah" by Mark DiBernardo

"I saw Satan fall like lightening from heaven. — Mark DiBernardo

God is the one to be praised, not our transformation. — Tullian Tchividjian

Is the music broke, Mommy? — Edward M. Wolfe

U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing. — Bono

Philanthropy is ... greatly overrated. A pain in the gut is not sympathy for the underprivileged, but the result of eating a green apple; the philanthropist gives to ease his own pain. — Henry David Thoreau

Today, I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between; I am not interested in all those films that do not pulse. — Francois Truffaut

Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them. — Julian Baggini