Van Gelderen Ministries Quotes & Sayings

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home.
[Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat
Res angusta domi.] — Juvenal

This is the myth of finding "the One": the one partner you're "meant" to be with, your soul mate, your Prince Charming, the girl of your dreams. Nonmonogamous folks reject this myth and acknowledge that no one person can be, or should be expected to be, everything for another. — Tristan Taormino

I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely. — Joanna Newsom

If I'm going to be 'too' anything, 'too cute' is fine. I love puppies. So what? Who hates puppies? — Zooey Deschanel

We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all. — Claudio Hummes

Iraq's always been very secular. — William Kristol

Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor
But was a race of heaven. — William Shakespeare

No doubt Confucius, as a person and as represented in the written tradition, is suffering an eclipse in Communist China because he is associated with those classes whose wealth is being proscribed as sops to bait the allegiance of the masses to the new political group. As students of history know, new political groups everywhere and throughout history have always proceeded thus. — James R. Ware

One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots. — Mallory Ortberg

They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut. — Bill O'Reilly

By modern standards the whole of greater London, including Southwark and Westminster, was small. It stretched only about two miles from north to south and three from east to west, and could be crossed on foot in not much more than an hour. — Bill Bryson

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. — Adam Smith

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful. — Amelia Barr

God dwells in eternity but time dwells in God. He has already lived all our tomorrows as He has lived all our yesterdays. — Aiden Wilson Tozer