Vennala Quotes & Sayings

Repentance, prayer, and pondering over the scriptures are essential parts of our qualifying for the gifts of the Spirit in our priesthood service. Further magnification of our power to serve will come as we respond with faith to go forward in our callings with the Holy Ghost to help us. — Henry B. Eyring

Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space. — Frederick Lenz

We sat around the kitchen table picking off of foil-covered plates. Conrad kept sneaking looks at me, and every time I looked back, he looked away. I'm right here, I wanted to tell him. I'm still here. — Jenny Han

I think a lot of actors, comedians, musicians, artists are drawn to this world, because you're allowed to excavate whatever it is that you're struggling with, and hopefully turn it into art. — Sandra Bullock

The fall of the sun, the final verse. — Rick Riordan

I knew the marks were never going to disappear. They were always there. Permanent in the deepest sense of the word. — Keary Taylor

A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board. — John Piper

Books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too. — Joel C. Rosenberg

There's no substitute for guts. — Paul Bryant

The ways in which Oscar Wilde was attacking the Romantics that preceded him, and the Romantic ideas that preceded him, were very similar to what the glam-rockers, particularly Bowie and Bryan Ferry, were attacking in the earnestness of '60s culture. Trying to shock, but with wit, cleverness, and homosexuality. — Todd Haynes

When people show you their boundaries ("I can't do this for you") you feel rejected ... part of your struggle is to set boundaries to your own love. Only when you are able to set your own boundaries will you be able to acknowledge, respect and even be grateful for the boundaries of others. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

The past was only my cradle, and now it cannot hold me, because I am grown too big. — Mary Antin

History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it. — Paula Wall

You hear the word, and believe it in theory, while you deny it in practice. I say to you, that 'you decveive yourselves'. — Charles Grandison Finney

I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously ... And now I seek my hatred and cannot seem to find it. I feel its flame going out as I come to understand [its] existence ... It would be difficult for me to avenge all those who should be avenged, because my revenge would be just another part of the same inexorable rite. I have to break that terrible chain. I want to think that my task is life and that my mission is not to prolong hatred but simply fill these pages ... — Isabel Allende