Torrojan Quotes & Sayings

What is the reason that many thousands of Christian workers in the world have not a greater influence? Nothing save this - the prayerlessness of their service. In the midst of all their zeal in the study and in the work of the Church, of all their faithfulness in preaching and conversation with the people, they lack that ceaseless prayer which has attached to it the sure promise of the Spirit and the power from on high. It is nothing but the sin of prayerlessness which is the cause of the lack of a powerful spiritual life! — Andrew Murray

La luna hung beautifully bright over the horizon, in a sky still dark. Cold breezes blew over the river and ruffled the tall grasses along the bank, making them rustle and chatter. In their waving fronds I sensed small animals stirring. The pure song of a nightingale, a rossinhol, rang across the water, ending in a trill. It was an hour for sprites and fairies. What magic might lurk among the riverbank grasses? Anything was possible just before dawn. — Julie Berry

Only the promise of eternal growth made sense of eternal life. Kate — Greg Egan

It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it. — Herman Melville

Katagiri Roshi says: "Poor artists. They suffer very much. They finish a masterpiece and they are not satisfied. They want to go on and do another." Yes, but it's better to go on and do another if you have the urge than to start drinking and become alcoholic or eat a pound of good fudge and get fat. — Natalie Goldberg

I will do everything I can to bring the Number One to Ferrari. The whole team and all the fans deserve it. — Michael Schumacher

We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature. — Peter Hain

Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting. — Ingrid Newkirk

Where there's smoke there's fire. Where there's fire there's passion. Where there's passion there's a girl smoking. — Chloe Thurlow

I am proud to have been capable of giving people hope again. — Francois Hollande

The story was the price you paid for the rhythm. — Zadie Smith

Regard your good name as the richest jewel yoou can possibly be possessed of. — Socrates

Bogeymen or not, I was in love with Alden Thomas, regardless of what name I went by or what demon wanted me dead. — Mary Lindsey

Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects. — Mason Cooley