The Reader Michael Berg Quotes & Sayings

Knowing that God is faithful, it really helps me to not be captivated by worry. But knowing that He will do what He has said, He will cause it to happen, whatever He has promised, and then it causes me to be less involved in worrying about a situation. — Josh McDowell

Way down in the boondocks of Waterford,
The girls liked to play for their manly sword.
Goodbye, Mr. Mason Lowe.
Oh, what a gigolo.
Too bad he's retired to Ellamore.
Mason stared at me, stunned speechless. Then he shook his head and cracked a smile. "Manly sword?"
"What?" I shrugged. "I never claimed to be a good poet. You try to come up with something that rhymes with Waterford. — Linda Kage

Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion. — Honore De Balzac

Often in history we see that religion, which was meant to raise us and make us better and nobler, has made people behave like beasts. Instead of bringing enlightenment of them, it has often tried to keep them in the dark; instead of broadening their minds, it has frequently made them narrow-minded and intolerant of others. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Rage-the biggest, truest rage of her adult life-had invaded her like a fever, but it wasn't like any fever she had known previously. It circulated like weird serum, cold on the right side of her body, then hot on the left, where her heart was. It seemed to come nowhere near her head, which remained clear. — Stephen King

There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

Choices are like connecting highways. They all take you to the same place. Some just take longer to get there. — Ione Skye

Don't worry about the room being messy! Everything can't be perfect - you have to let some things go, and it's better to actually sit down on the floor with your child than spend time worrying about having a perfect house. — Andie MacDowell

Nothing in this world is more burdensome than sin - it is the heaviest cross men and women ever bear. — Jeffrey R. Holland

We have been trained to broadcast our successes and hide our failures. But the truth is this: our failures humanise us, and they connect us to one another. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you find someone you're in love with that's also your friend, wouldn't that be the greatest benefit. — Ellie Hart

But instead of feeling safe and secure behind their armed walls they found themselves trapped in the prison they had built with their own fears. — Katie J. Davis

I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here's a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be. — Billy Joel

When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge. — Sam Taylor-Wood