""I accept your condemnation," I said."

--

Gabrielle Zevin

#Accepting Quotes #Condemnation Quotes #Said Quotes

“"But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves, why should it be necessary to ask Him for anything?" I answer, "What if He knows prayer to be the thing we need first and most? What if the main object in God's idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need - the need of Himself?"”

Source : George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.128, Simon and Schuster
“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.”

Source : "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1732.
“Once the impact of climate change becomes visible, politics will react quickly and forcefully. We saw that in Germany in 2002 during the floods on the Elbe River. They, in fact, determined the result of the (general) elections (later that same year).”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I had been to São Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, I had already started playing that music, and the audience response had been pretty good because those songs are so melodic. I knew it would be something that would be appealing; I wasn't thinking that it would make the top of the pop charts or anything like that.”
“The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.”
“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”

Source : Dan Brown (2003). “The Da Vinci Code: A Novel”
“As a Fundamentalist I had discovered while I was in college that it is possible to dismiss the entire Church as having gone off the rails by about AD 95. That is, we, with our open Bibles, knew better than did old Ignatius or Clement, who had been taught by the very apostles themselves, just what the Church is and what it should look like.”
“I had an attachment disorder.”

You may also like: