Valuestore Quotes & Sayings

Life is too short, the world is too big and God's love is too great to live ordinary. — Christine Caine

I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him. — Jose Saramago

Unless you are at a picnic, life is no picnic. — Jane Wagner

Beauty, coveted though it was, could not outlive you. Only actions would. — Roshani Chokshi

Mystical insight and enlightenment occur when the veil between the worlds is lifted, the worlds are bridged, the gap closes, and we cross over. — Tom Cowan

We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up. — Deval Patrick

They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God. — Jim Bakker

What value can we place on our parliamentary institutions if constituencies return only tame, docile and subservient members who try to stamp on every form of independent judgement? — Michael Dobbs

The Holy Spirit has to convince us that reality is better than illusions and that eternity is better than linear time. It is actually beyond one being better than the other; it is a case of there being no comparison. One is real and one is not. If we are sincerely interested in experiencing True Happiness, if we really want to be in a miraculous state of mind, all it takes is the willingness to start to see the miracle offers us everything. — David Hoffmeister

The question is not whether a picture is good, in some formal, technical sense, but, does it mean what I need it to mean? Writers can edit sentences that may be well-crafted but that don't express an intended thought. But in photography, there are no revisions: A photograph is in or it's out, and the photographer must live with the consequences of his or her choices. — Thomas Roma

God would love to piece together the shattered fragments of your life. But He is waiting ... graciously waiting until the time is right. Until you are tired of the life you are living ... until you see it for what it really is. Until you are weary of coping ... of taking charge of your own life ... until you realize the mess you are making of it. Until you recognize your need for Him ... He's waiting. — Charles R. Swindoll

Don't you just love the idea of cooking flowers? I imagine them bursting into bloom, right in the pan. — Ruth Reichl

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime. — Mark Twain

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness — Mark Twain

Thankfully, in my youth I had the best financial advisor a son could ask for: my dad Walter. When I got that first signing bonus in 1978, Dad took my cheque, announced, 'This is what we're going to do,' and bought an annuity with it. — Wayne Gretzky