"Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving."

-- Frederick Buechner

#Religious Quotes #Moving Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom.”
“...and then she realized: they WERE all alike!”
“Sympathy is the charm of human life ...”

Source : Grace Aguilar (1858). “The Mother's Recompense: a Sequel to Home Influence”, p.65
“Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate precisely to prevent senior officials from freelancing, or putting their departmental interests first. For all the formal machinery, Eisenhower was very literally the commander in chief, making the key decisions himself and monitoring closely how they were carried out. Even years after D-Day, when critics needled him for not being on the front lines with the invading forces, he retorted, â€œI planned it and took responsibility for it. Did you want me to unload a truck?”

Source : Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.118, Simon and Schuster
“I laughed. It was just like Owen to make excuses for someone elseâ€™s shortcomings. Even fictional characters. Owen found my tendency to speak my mind â€œrefreshingly honest,â€ and hailed Marcâ€™s temper as â€œa deep protective instinct.â€ He said Ethan â€œthoroughly enjoyed life,â€ and that Parker â€œreally knew how to have a good time.â€ According to Owen, we were all doing just fine, and all was right with the world.”
“In every game, there's three teams out there. There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference.”
“As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of apartheid everywhere around me.”

Source : Teresa Heinz's address to the Democratic National Convention at the FleetCenter in Boston, www.washingtonpost.com. July 27, 2004.
“The villager, born humbly and bred hard, Content his wealth, and poverty his guard, In action simply just, in conscience clear, By guilt untainted, undisturb'd by fear, His means but scanty, and his wants but few, Labor his business, and his pleasure too, Enjoys more comforts in a single hour Than ages give the wretch condemn'd to power.”

Source : Charles Churchill (1783). “The Poetical Works of C. Churchill: In Three Volumes. with the Life of the Author”, p.90

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