Wartime Farm Quotes & Sayings

God created seaweed ... The seaweed made the world. — John B. Keane

I regularly tell our seminary students that if I happen to visit the church in which one of them serves, I will not ask first, "Is this man a good preacher?" Rather, first of all I will ask the secretaries, office staff, janitors, and cleaners what it is like to work for this pastor. I will ask, "What kind of man is he? Is he a servant? Is he demanding and harsh, or his he patient, kind, and forbearing as a man in authority?" One of our graduates may preach great sermons, but if he is a pain to work for, then you know he will cause major problems in any congregation. Leaders in the church are required by Scripture to set an example in the areas of love, kindness, gentleness, patience, and forbearance before they are appointed to preach, teach, and rule. If we obediently require these attitudes and character traits of our leaders, what will our "new community" look like — Jerram Barrs

A fool and his money be soon at debate — Thomas Tusser

As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways. — Alfred Russel Wallace

There was the record of a pulsing life which had learnt too well, for its years, of the dust and ashes of things, of the cruelty of lust and the fragility of love — Thomas Hardy

And that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave. — Paulo Coelho

I would just be constantly writing all these zingers - like, 'Burn. That would really get her.' And I know people are going to obsess over who it's about, because they think they have all my relationships mapped out. But there's a reason there are not any overt call-outs in that song. My intent was not to create some gossip-fest. I wanted people to apply it to a situation where they felt betrayed in their own lives. — Taylor Swift

Our hearts resonate at the same frequency as the earth and the universe. Therefore, we are all valuable instruments in the orchestration of the world and its harmony. — Suzy Kassem

It's like that. When you care about someone so much that you'll do anything - even stupid or destructive things - for them."
"That sounds more like mental illness than love. — Paula Stokes

God is not interested in our spiritual life. He's interested in our life. — John Ortberg

Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill, it doubles his fault. — George Herbert