Wishes New Assignment Quotes & Sayings

Jesus made this diagnosis a long time ago when talking about temptation. "The spirit" - notice the language again - "is willing, but the flesh [the body] is weak." This is very true and largely ignored and forgotten in our day. Habits eat willpower for breakfast. So there is the will, there is the mind, and there is the body. They are working badly, sometimes in ways that are kind of humorous to us, but often in ways that are horrible and unspeakably tragic. — John Ortberg

Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend — Michelangelo

On the banks of the Nile, the Rosetta branch, I lived an enjoyable childhood in the City of Disuq, which is the home of the famous mosque, Sidi Ibrahim. — Ahmed Zewail

I want to write my own music, and I want to tour. — Cole Vosbury

I really don't know," the old lady brought out hesitatingly, "you see I've never sold the dead before. — Nikolai Gogol

She's like a thousand different people right now, all waiting to be, and every time she makes a choice, one of those people goes away forever. Until finally you run out of choices and you are whoever you are. — Nathan Ballingrud

I tip like crazy. They'll remember me. Celebrity can be expensive. — Phil Donahue

It was important to get things right, especially if you were going to make sayings out of them. — Kim Stanley Robinson

This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation. — David Platt

Genius is an infinite capacity for pain. — Thomas M. Disch