Quotes of: Calvinism Keyword

It was better for me when I was joined at the court by a second woman. When I was there alone, there was too much media focus on the one woman, and the minute we got another woman, that changed.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Oooo wee! You see that chump go flying? Look’eah, nothing like charred demon to make a brotha feel right. - Calvin Freeman (Sineaters‬:Devotion Book One)

Sin Eaters

Many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I feared. Page 135

My Beloved World

The tatters of old stories are tangled, weathered, muted by long-held silences that succeeded loud feuds, and sometimes no doubt re-dyed a more flattering color.

My Beloved World

I accepted what the Sisters taught in religion class: that God is loving, merciful, charitable, forgiving. That message didn't jibe with adults smacking kids.

My Beloved World

In my experience when a friend unloaded about a boyfriend or spouse, the listener soaked up the complaint and remembered it long after the speaker had forgiven the offense.

My Beloved World

I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.

My Beloved World

It seems obvious now: the child who spends school days in a fog of semi-comprehension has no way to know her problem is not that she is slow-witted.

My Beloved World

I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there. Page 188

My Beloved World

As difficult an environment as the DA's Office could be, I saw no overarching conspiracy against women. The unequal treatment was usually more a matter of old habits dying hard.

My Beloved World

It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

The trick for introverts is to honor their styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

[God is] the One who in absolute freedom loves absolutely.

Young, Restless, No Longer Reformed: Black Holes, Love, and a Journey in and Out of Calvinism

It's our faith that activates the power of God.

Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I'm going to be my best right now. That's what faith is all about.

Joel Osteen

I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.

Calvin and Hobbes: The Revenge of the Baby-Sat

The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who 'disappeared'. That's what the candle is for.

Peter Benenson

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or 'disappearance' to be carried out by their officials with impunity.

Peter Benenson

The aggressive use of wiretaps is important: It shows that we are targeting white-collar insider-trading rings with the same powerful investigative tools that have worked so successfully against the mob and drug cartels.

Preet Bharara

I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.

Ralph Abernathy

And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which were I think quite short sighted and, indeed, in some cases, scapegoated individuals.

Richard Ben-Veniste