X45c Quotes & Sayings

As soon as men who believe they are doing God's will get hold of power, whether household or village or in Jerusalem or Rome itself, the devil enters them. It isn't long before they start drawing up lists of punishments for all kinds of innocent activities, sentencing people to be flogged or stoned in the name of God for wearing this or eating that or believing the other. And the privileged ones will build great palaces and temples to strut around in, and levy taxes on the poor to pay for their luxuries...and put them poor harmless heretics they flush out to horrible public deaths, to terrify the rest into obedience. — Philip Pullman

Yesterday is gone. — Penelope Douglas

When logics die,
The secret of the soil grows through the eye,
And blood jumps in the sun;
Above the waste allotments the dawn halts. — Dylan Thomas

Belief is just the place of understanding you are at the moment. Without an open mind, you will be standing in that one spot forever. — Dannye Williamsen

Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings. — Sri Aurobindo

The love of God. The mercy of God. The judgment of God. You take the shoes off your feet and stand as you would before a mountain or at the edge of the sea. But the friendship of God? It is not something God does. It is something Abraham and God, or Moses and God, do together. Not even God can be a friend all by himself apparently. You see Abraham, say, not standing at all but sitting down, loosening his prayer shawl, trimming the end off his cigar. He is not being Creature for the moment, and God is not being Creator. There is no agenda. They are simply being together, the two of them, and being themselves. — Frederick Buechner

Respect the dead, learn from them, do not follow or avenge them. — Evan Meekins

I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up. — Katherine Heigl

Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one. — Hermann Ebbinghaus

Everyone says "I wish I was in your shoes ... ", the hundreds of people that wish they were in my shoes don't know the tenth of it. If they were in my shoes they would cry like a baby. — Mike Tyson

To focus energy on the less important things in life, hinder creating a solution to solve those problems that are of the most importance. — Ellen J. Barrier

The confidence you need is belief in your potential. If you see world-class potential in yourself, you'll put in the effort. If you don't see the potential, you won't put in the effort and you'll wait for the performance, and the performance always follows the belief in self. — Denis Waitley

I believe that the appearance of God the Father and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, in 1820 to Joseph Smith unlocked the heavens not only to the great spiritual knowledge revealed in this dispensation but also to secular knowledge. — James E. Faust

My mother did not want cancer to interfere with my life, as she knew it would eventually end hers. — Jenna Morasca