Life Quotes

Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life. You can spend your life wallowing in despair, wondering why you were the one who was led towards the road strewn with pain, ...

J.D. Stroube

When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?

Idries Shah

To think I need a gun to protect against those who'd kill me for being Muslim ... It's too bad they don't know about my true religion of noodling - a reason to get their nuts in a snit.

Manil Suri

The cross is laid on every Christian. The first Christ-suffering which every man must experience is the call to abandon the attachments of this world. It is that dying of the old man which is the result of his encounter with Christ. As we embark upon...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.

Richard J Foster

Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.

Richard J Foster

Radical self-denial gives the feel of adventure. If we forsake all, we even have the chance of glorious martyrdom. But in service, we must experience the many little death of going beyond ourselves. Service banishes us to the mundane, the ordinary, t...

Richard J Foster

Freedom from anxiety is characterized by three inner attitudes. If what we have we received as a gift, and if what we have is to be cared for by God, and if what we have is available to others, then we will possess freedom from anxiety.

Richard J Foster

When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.

Kristan Higgins

One feels relieved these days when a play is not like television.

Valerie Martin

Actors are superstitious about beggars, perhaps because we're largely in the same line.

Valerie Martin

If only we could crawl inside our dreams and live there. Why can't I live inside my dream?

Meg Howrey

You're drunk as four skunks, you idiot.

Sherwood Smith

Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Frank Herbert

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

Frank Herbert

Saying of the Prophet The Judge A man appointed to be a judge has been killed without a knife.

Idries Shah

The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Who in the universe halts when the enemy tells them to?

Sherwood Smith

From now on there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer