Verandahs At Hunt Quotes & Sayings

What I am suggesting is that faith in Jesus risen from the dead transcends but includes what we call history and what we call science. Faith of this sort is not blind belief that rejects all history and science. Nor is it simply - which would be much safer! - a belief that inhabits a totally different sphere, discontinuous from either, in a separate watertight compartment. Rather, this kind of faith, which is like all modes of knowledge defined by the nature of its object, is faith in the creator God, the God who has promised to put all things to rights at the end, the God who (as the sharp point where those two come together) has raised Jesus from the dead within history, leaving as I said evidence that demands an explanation from the scientist as well as anybody else. — N. T. Wright

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life. — George Bernard Shaw

You were the only thing that made me feel safe when the earthquakes threatened to break me. I needed you here because when you're not here, I don't have a home. — T.J. Klune

Cassio," she whispers. "Get me out of here. — Kendare Blake

You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been. — Forrest Carter

I used to feel so shy speaking to girls. It was even worse when they were around their crew because they would diss me. — Chris Brown

If you never have a go, you never, never know. — Janine Shepherd

I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference. — Adam Levine

If you start wondering how this house works, you'll likely go mad. That could be amusing, I suppose. Especially if it's the kind of madness that causes you to run naked through the hallways. Do feel free to indulge in that anytime. — Rosamund Hodge

We [Americans] continue to be harangued by politicians about how Americans must fight this war because we're being attacked because we have freedoms and liberties and women in the workplace and a whole list of ephemera that have nothing to do with this war at all. — Michael Scheuer

But it's obvious since the beginning that wars make no sense. You kill people to tell them you want to stop killing them. — Patrick Ness

Anna, I only know this: when it is your turn to die - my turn, anyone's - when it is time for you to let go of one life and reach out for another, you will be left with no choice but to hurl yourself willingly into the mother arms of transfiguration. It's not an end. It's a beginning. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks. — Derrick Bell