Vandermark State Quotes & Sayings

It does not say, 'Blessed are those who are persecuted because they are objectionable.' It does not say, 'Blessed are those who are having a hard time in their Christian life because they are being difficult.' It does not say, 'Blessed are those who are being persecuted as Christians because they are seriously lacking in wisdom and are really foolish and unwise in what they regard as being their testimony. — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Though people are more important than money, I'm not convinced these large sums of money paid out to victims is the best. Listening to the some of the victims, I think we could have avoided a lot of this if the Church had humbly apologized to them, but we tried to bully some of them. I pray the victims are healed. — Uwem Akpan

The works of God are not accomplished when we wish them, but whenever it pleases Him. — Vincent De Paul

I'm an anarchist and I do think things such as Occupy Wall Street are about getting a little closer to the solution. — Woody Harrelson

I won't use abortion as a litmus test with a pro-choice individual. Someone that is an activist on the abortion issue, I think, goes outside the pale, and I cannot support an activist on the abortion issue. — Ken Buck

He was no defensive fighter; even in the teeth of overwhelming odds he always carried the war to the enemy. — Robert E. Howard

Once people envisioned the possibility of change in a fixed order, the end of an age of submission came in sight; the turn to individual conscience lay ahead. To that extent the Black Death may have been the unrecognized beginning of modern man. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is the proclamation of the end of religion, not of a new religion, or even of the best of all religions. If the cross is the sign of anything, it's the sign that God has gone out of the religion business and solved all of the world's problems without requiring a single human being to do a single religious thing. What the cross is actually a sign of is the fact that religion can't do a thing about the world's problems - that it never did work and it never will — Robert Farrar Capon

How does the Authority usually handle storms like this?"
"Not well. — Devon Monk

The moon's not big enough to wish on. Nothing is. — Heather Demetrios

The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife. — Franz Grillparzer

Winners learn from the past, live in the present, and lead into the future. — Orrin Woodward

In order to soar like an eagle one has to be bold like a lion. — Matshona Dhliwayo

For there was no doubt in Bundy's mind about his ability to handle ... the world. The job was not just a happenstance thing; he had, literally and figuratively, been bred for it, or failing this, Secretary of State. He was the brightest light in that glittering constellation around the President, for if those years had any central theme, if there was anything that bound the men, their followers and their subordinates together, it was the belief that sheer intelligence and rationality could answer and solve anything. — David Halberstam

If I have one message to young swimmers about taking care of their bodies, it's definitely take care of your shoulders. — Eric Shanteau