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“The modern university does not exist to teach alone...It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and an ornament...The university rests on the public will and on public appreciation.”
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“What finally prompted me to lose weight was a view of myself in a hairdresser's full-length mirror when I was seated and wearing one of the salon's floral print robes and realized that I looked like a slipcovered club chair.”
Source : Mimi Sheraton (2004). “Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life”, Large Print Press
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“God does some of God's best work with people who are seriously lost.”
Source : Barbara Brown Taylor (2009). “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith”, p.73, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
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“According to the New Testament, God wills that the church be a people who show what God is like.”
Source : Stanley J. Grenz (1998). “What Christians really believe - and why”
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“I love kids. All my best friends have kids, and I love, love, love kids.”
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“There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.”
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“Every conscious act requires risk. Every conscious act requires decision. Put these two facts together and you realize that the secret to life is not to avoid gambling but to gamble well.”
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“Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”