Unique Good Friday Quotes & Sayings

I was called to start a mission, not a church. There is a difference. — Robert H. Schuller

Don't bemoan your fate. Everybody's not going to be dealt the same hand. Everybody's going to go through tough times. — Chuck Knox

When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers. — Karl Barth

Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water. — Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria

She could see it surprised him, too, sometimes. He told her once when there was a storm a bird had flown into the house. He'd never seen one like it. The wind must have carried it in from some far-off place. He opened all the doors and windows, but it was so desperate to escape that for a while it couldn't find a way out. "It left a blessing in the house," he said. "The wildness of it. Bringing the wind inside. — Marilynne Robinson

I didn't play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college. — Joe Biden

I wanted someone, somewhere, whom I might never meet, to read a sentence I wrote and think, I thought I was the only one who felt that way. — Lauren DeStefano

Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do. — Karl E. Weick

His [Death] voice is cold at first, John. It seems unfeeling. But if you listen without fear, you find that when he speaks, the most ordinary words become poetry. When he stands close to you, your life becomes a song, a praise. When he touches you, your smallest talents become gold; the most ordinary loves break your heart with their beauty. — Martine Leavitt

Theoretically, pickling can be accomplished without salt, but the carbohydrates and proteins in the vegetables tend to putrefy too quickly to be saved by the emerging lactic acid. Without salt, yeast forms, and the fermentation process leads to alcohol rather than pickles. — Mark Kurlansky

Money makes the world go round. — John Kander

One of the reasons why this country undertook military action in Iraq was that there are quite a few problems here, and perhaps attention needed to be deflected from those problems. It sometimes seems that the U.S. economy works successfully only if it gets a stimulus from the defense industry. So perhaps in addition to showing the power and the might of the United States internationally, another reason was to help the defense industry and to help the U.S. economy recover. — Mikhail Gorbachev