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“Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.”
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“...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.”
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“The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.”
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“And David saw himself reflected in the Woodsman's eyes, and there he was no longer old but a young man, for a man is always his father's child no matter how old he is or how long they have been apart.”
Source : John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.338, Simon and Schuster
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“Worship and worry cannot live in the same heart: they are mutually exclusive.”
Source : Ruth Bell Graham (2008). “Prodigals and Those Who Love Them: Words of Encouragement for Those Who Wait”, p.137, Baker Books
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“Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are; And while the ship right onward leaps, Uplift it from the exhaustless deeps. Parch not your life with dry despair; The stream of hope flow everywhere-- So under every sky and star, Just drop your bucket where you are.”
Source : "Opportunity", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 570-72,
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“I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.”
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“Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to make a decision.”
