Quotes of: New-york-city Keyword

To my surprise, I had not just doodled, I had prayed (I drew new shapes and names of each friend and focused on the person whose name stared at me from the paper). I had though OF each person as I drew but not ABOUT each person. I could just sit with...

Praying in Color: Drawing a New Path to God

The miracles of healing, important as they were, were not an end in themselves. They did not constitute the highest good of the messianic salvation. This fact is illustrated by the arrangement of the phrases in Matthew 11:4-5. Greater than deliveranc...

A Theology of the New Testament

Most people in America, when they are exposed to the Christian faith, are not being transformed. They take one step into the door, and the journey ends. They are not being allowed, encouraged, or equipped to love or to think like Christ. Yet in many ...

Unchristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity...and Why It Matters

The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why birth is such a humbling experience. The new mom weeps in awe at the little miracle in her arms. She knows it came out of her but ...

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

What is the world doing? Have new gods been discovered, new laws, new freedoms? Who cares! But up here a primrose is blossoming and bearing silver fuzz on its leaves, and the light sweet wind is singing below me in the poplars, and between my eyes an...

Wandering

This is not a new idea; this is the idea of the age of reason. This is the philosophy that guided the men that made the democracy that we live under. The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a sy...

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

This is a new land, this is a new place, this is a new world, this is unknown. This is uncharted, this is all there is. We don't have any other place to go. I always quote Gene as saying "Why are we now going into space? Well, why did we trouble to l...

Majel Barrett Roddenberry

Fixate on whole cultures, not specific pieces of poverty. No specific intervention is going to turn around the life of a child or an adult in any consistent way, but if you can surround a person with a new culture, and different web of relationships,...

David Brooks

Jesse: I mean, just once, I'd love to see, some little old lady save up all her money, to go to the fortune teller, and she'd get there, all excited about hearing her future, and the woman would say, "Um-humm. Tomorrow, and all your remaining days wi...

Before Sunrise

May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.

Cities & Countries

You shouldn't do that. Not to your child. You should-carry your own burdens.

City of Heavenly Fire

Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss.

City of Heavenly Fire

As if we’d have sex in a cave surrounded by hordes of demons. This is reality, not your fevered imagination.

City of Heavenly Fire

Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.

City of Heavenly Fire

But God knows, I don't want anyone but you. I don't even want to want anyone but you.

City of Glass

Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago.

Cities of the Red Night

...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.

City of Golden Shadow

Get over here. Sheldon's had an idea." "Who's Sheldon?", said Isabelle.

City of Lost Souls

She realized that this scarred, sarcastic boy, was gentle with the things he loved.

City of Lost Souls

The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.

City of Stairs

Something snapped inside Maryse. “He is not a Herondale. He is a Lightwood. Jace Lightwood. He’s my son.

City of Lost Souls