Yule Winter Solstice Quotes & Sayings

First and foremost, he never imputes a base motive to anyone else. If someone is rude to him, he assumes that the rudeness is unintentional. If he knows that it is intentional, he acts as if it were not. He never insulted anyone himself except by intention. He never met anger with anger. He never patronized anyone because he never assumed that he knew more than anyone else or that uneducated people are unintelligent. He never corrected (or smiled at) other people's slips. "Always," my mother would say, "allow other people the luxury of being mistaken. They will find out for themselves soon enough. If they don't, they are the kind of people in whom it does — Whittaker Chambers

The Romans had, like other Pagan nations, a nature festival, called by them Saturnalia, and the Northern peoples had Yule; both celebrated the turn of the year from the death of winter to the life of spring - the winter solstice. As this was an auspicious change the festival was a very joyous one ... The giving of presents and the burning of candles characterized it. Among the Northern people the lighting of a huge log in the houses of the great and with appropriate ceremonies was a feature. — Samuel L. Jackson

But the day is coming when Jesus will return to earth and the reign of God will become an uncontested reality throughout the world. — Zondervan Publishing

Trust is a big word for me. Loyalty and trust, for me, are everything. It's the core of what I'm about and what the people around me hopefully are about. It's a certain thing that gives you a sense of security. It's the biggest factor in everything I do. — Tommy Mottola

God is more concerned about your heart than your performance. If your heart is right, your performance will eventually catch up. — Joyce Meyer

Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms? — Phil McGraw

There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a first draft and I'm nowhere near done. — Heidi Julavits

The advantages of wealth are greatly exaggerated. — Leland Stanford

I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works. — Rand Paul

Humility is the most important quality in the spiritual life. When it is lacking spiritual growth stops. — Frederick Lenz

Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business. — John C. Maxwell

I was a dreamseller, a medium through which my loved ones could project what they wanted to believe, what they dared to dream - that I would be well. I sold them a dream, something that never existed in the first place, their own idealistic vision of me. — Brandon Novak

He didn't know why she was there, didn't know why she kept coming back, didn't know, she could have a good man like Haines, why she left Haines's house and ended her night in Cal's bed. And he didn't care. She was there. — Kristen Ashley

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation . — Ansel Adams