Quotes & Sayings About Welcoming December

It was the feet they'd do, for a first offense. They used steel cables, frayed at the ends. After — Margaret Atwood

Fasting makes sense if it really chips away at our security and, as a consequence, benefits someone else, if it helps us cultivate the style of the good Samaritan, who bent down to his brother in need and took care of him. — Pope Francis

If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power. — Lars Von Trier

Lenten practices of giving up pleasures are good reminders that the purpose of life is not pleasure. The purpose of life is to attain to perfect life, all truth and undying ecstatic love - which is the definition of God. In pursuing that goal we find happiness. Pleasure is not the purpose of anything; pleasure is a by-product resulting from doing something that is good. One of the best ways to get happiness and pleasure out of life is to ask ourselves, 'How can I please God?' and, 'Why am I not better?' It is the pleasure-seeker who is bored, for all pleasures diminish with repetition. — Fulton J. Sheen

I think I could have loved you. — Kenya Wright

God, he was a beautiful son of a bitch. Not fair. — Aleatha Romig

Creation-that is the great redemption from suffering, and life's growing light. But that the creator may be, much suffering is needed and much change. Indeed, there must be much bitter dying in your life, you creators — Friedrich Nietzsche

What keeps me motivated is going out to the field and seeing programs that incorporate a focus on both people and the planet, and seeing how mutually reinforcing they can really be. — Helene D. Gayle

Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul. — George Carman

The eye of God is inside us. It's looking through us and it sees whatever we look at. Sometimes I think we could give God better things to look at, don't you? — Frederick Lenz

Don't let your emotions get in the way of rational decision making. — Roy Bennett

All psychological suffering (or happiness, taken in its usual sense) is a matter of comparison. — Robert A. Johnson