"This year - today - I am repenting of my dependence on fossil fuels."

-- Jim Wallis

#Years Quotes #Fuel Quotes #Today Quotes

“God willing, I will be back next year. Over the years I have been blessed to have so many friends, including those that sit in the stands and listen, as well as those at home who listen and watch. It is just too hard to say goodbye to all these friends. Naturally there will come a time when I will have to say goodbye, but Iâ€™ve soul-searched and this is not the time.”
“Ye are God's building -- All hands of the glorious Trinity are at work in this building. The Father chose the objects of mercy, and gave them to the Son to be redeemed; the Son purchased redemption for them; and the Holy Ghost applies the purchased redemption unto them.”
“We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.”
“Contemplation does not ignore the 'historical Gethsemane', does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of contemplation is a true happiness, indeed the supreme happiness; but it is founded upon sorrow.”
“Every Christian leader should have this engraved in his subconscious. No matter what you do, never take yourself too seriously God always chooses the foolish things of this world to confound the wise. He shows his might only on the behalf of those who trust in Him. Humility is the place where all christian service begins.”

Source : K. P. Yohannan (2004). “Revolution in World Missions”, Gfa Books
“New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but itâ€™s not, itâ€™s like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so theyâ€™re one step removed from it. And then in September it all gets normal again.”

Source : Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.121, Macmillan
“Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.”
“In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean? You're saying I have to 'starve' and pay all these dues just to play jazz?' And my answer to them is, well, to some degree, yes! Because in order to play jazz you have to live it. Those notes mean something. They don't just come from your brain, they come from your heart and soul too. And in order to have that heart and soul you have to experience life. So I relate my music to my life and my life style. You can't separate the two.”

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