"The ship is safest when it is in port, but thatâ€™s not what ships were built for."

-- Paulo Coelho

#Life Quotes #Ships Quotes #Port Quotes

“If ever there were a true "just as I am" church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and brokenness with them without neat and tidy happy endings quite yet, if ever there was a group where everyone was loved and no one pretended - we could not make enough room inside the building.”

Source : John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.202, Zondervan
“Our Heavenly Father does bless us when we show our love for Him in all things.”
“A lot of individuals are so worried about being politically correct. I'd rather go ahead and say what's on my mind than to sit there and come up with some PC 'Oh, the guy is a great fighter and I have a lot of respect for him.' If I don't mean it, why is it even coming out of my mouth? ... I want to fight Lesnar. I hate who he is as a person. I want to break his neck in the ring. I want him to be the first person that dies due to Octagon-related injuries. That's what's going through my mind.”
“Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.”
“My hearts not been in it this year [2005], and I've not been playing well, but I keep on winning.”
“Nobody disputes that cheap natural gas would be a good thing for the economy. The question is, is this a sustainable new development that can be counted on for decades to come, or simply a 'bubble' brought on by a land grab and drilling frenzy?”
“Quarterbacks are always ready.”
“It is ironic to watch the churches, including large sections of my own religion, surrendering to the spirit of modernity at the very moment when modernity itself is undergoing a kind of spiritual collapse....”

Source : Irving Kristol (1995). “Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea”, p.440, Simon and Schuster

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