Upsurging Quotes & Sayings

The Christian's life in all its aspects-intellectual and ethical, devotional and relational, upsurging in worship and outgoing in witness-is supernatural; only the Spirit can initiate and sustain it. So apart from him, not only will there be no lively believers and no lively congregations, there will be no believers and no congregations at all. — J.I. Packer

There is a great degree of comfort with your family when you're on a TV show. — Gillian Jacobs

We are freed to free others.
We are affirmed to affirm others.
We are loved to love others. — Ann Weems

Become as knowledgeable as possible. — Jane Goodall

Prayer is not itself powerful; it is not magic. But its power is unlimited in that the child of God calls on a Father of unlimited goodness and ability. — Peter H. Davids

In the third month, the sun rising, the Boar and the Leopard on the field of Mars to fight; The tired Leopard raises its eye to the heavens, sees an eagle playing around the sun. — Nostradamus

Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind. — Elizabeth Lesser

The woman who says, 'My kids are all speaking to one another and they love us' is a psychopathic liar. — Erma Bombeck

Where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too. — Heinrich Heine

Complaining is silly. Either act or forget. — Stefan Sagmeister

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions. — Keith Richards

Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe. — John Prendergast

Jacob was hardly in need of any physical protection I could offer. But my arms, pinned beneath Edward's, yearned to reach out to him. To wrap around his big, warm, waist in a silent promise of acceptance and comfort. Edward's shielding arms had become restraints. — Stephenie Meyer