Undesignedly Quotes & Sayings

When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The stars are in blossom, the moon is in flower,
And bright are the windows of Night in her tower. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Love opens us.
Pain deepens us.
Courage strengthens us.
Joy enlightens us.
Beauty renews us. — Joyce Wycoff

Every employee in a company depends on the C.E.O. to make fast, high-quality decisions. — Ben Horowitz

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him. — Abraham Lincoln

The past was only my cradle, and now it cannot hold me, because I am grown too big. — Mary Antin

Here, then, is the message of Easter, or at least the beginning of that message. The resurrection of Jesus doesn't mean, "It's all right. We're going to heaven now." No, the life of heaven has been born on this earth. It doesn't mean, "So there is a life after death." Well, there is, but Easter says much, much more than that. It speaks of a life that is neither ghostly nor unreal, but solid and definite and practical. The Easter stories come at the end of the four gospels, but they are not about an "end." They are about a beginning. The beginning of God's new world. The beginning of the kingdom. God is now in charge, on earth as in heaven. And God's "being-in-charge" is focused on Jesus himself being king and Lord. The title on the cross was true after all. The resurrection proves it. — N. T. Wright