Withdrawals From Ira Quotes & Sayings

We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life. — Jerry Bridges

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea. — Alexa Ray Joel

To think that I have wasted years of my life, that I have longed for death, that the greatest love that I have ever known has been for a woman who did not please me, who was not in my style! PLACE-NAMES: — Marcel Proust

You follow these little discrepancies long enough and they sometimes open up into huge revelations. — Robert M. Pirsig

Stress comes from lower vibrational consciousness; change your awareness to melt away stress. — Debasish Mridha

All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero. — Joseph Rotblat

[ ... ] there can be no a priori moral framework in a modern democracy [ ... ] — Reza Aslan

I think we are incumbent, I am incumbent, the Who is incumbent, anybody that produces anything by me is incumbent by my Englishness. — Pete Townshend

So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds. — Countee Cullen

I wasn't a trained actor, I was trained in musical comedy theater, and when you do that, the audience is completely part of the thing. It's like Elizabethan theater. You play the scene, and then you turn - the audience is part of it. — Christopher Walken

His confession was silent, and her promise of faithfulness was silent. — George Eliot

If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark. — Ray Bradbury