Weighting For Christmas Quotes & Sayings

And just as there are no crimes so detestable that they can prevent the gift of grace, so too there can be no works so eminent that they are owed in condign [deserved] judgment that which is given freely. Would it not be a debasement of redemption in Christ's blood, and would not God's mercy be made secondary to human works, if justification, which is through grace, were owed in view of preceding merits, so that it were not the gift of a Donor, but the wages of a laborer? — Prosper Of Aquitaine

I'm so glad I put a hot, naked guy on my Christmas wish list. I just didn't think Santa would actually deliver one. — Patricia W. Fischer

It may help to remember when you receive a complaint that it is only nominally about you; it is really information about the person making the complaint. — Philippa Perry

You can be anything you want ... But you must be strong first. — Pavel Tsatsouline

I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man. — Jonathan Franzen

See yourself living in a new body. Hopeful = recovery. Happy = happier biochemistry. Stress degrades the bod. — Rhonda Byrne

One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data. — Jared Sandberg

For her part, Diane did not have a good reason for why she wouldn't tell Josh anything about his father. She didn't have a good reason for most of what she did. Mostly, she went by what seemed right in the moment, and justified it to herself later, and in this way she was no different than anyone else she knew. — Joseph Fink