Tuolihissi Quotes & Sayings

When St Francis looked deeply at an all day treatment in winter and asked it to speak to him about God, the tree was instantly covered in blossoms. — Thich Nhat Hanh

To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic, and so on. True surrender, however, is something entirely different. It does not mean to passively put up with whatever situation you find yourself in and to do nothing about it. Nor does it mean to cease making plans or initiating positive action. Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life. — Eckhart Tolle

Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved. — Karl Barth

In every endeavour, we need God's grace. — Lailah Gifty Akita

To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full. — Frederick Buechner

Art has done many things in human history, but in the last century especially, it has primarily tried to bother and provoke us. To force us to see things differently. Art changes. Its very purpose, we might say, is to change, and to change us along with it. — Ian Bogost

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery. — Keith Richards

I yet beseech your majesty,
If for I want that glib and oily art,
To speak and purpose not; since what I well intend,
I'll do't before I speak,
that you make known
It is no vicious blot, murder, or foulness,
No unchaste action, or dishonour'd step,
That hath deprived me of your grace and favour;
But even for want of that for which I am richer,
A still-soliciting eye, and such a tongue
As I am glad I have not, though not to have it
Hath lost me in your liking. — William Shakespeare

Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. — Ann Voskamp

I felt as if I were living alone in an extremely well-cared-for ruin. — Haruki Murakami

The film I think was a good film for what it was designed for. It was for kids. Unfortunately the critics slashed it before it even started but that is just the way the cookie crumbles. — Justin Guarini

O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station. — Saul Bellow

Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into. — John Locke