Our Quotes
We created a way of raising standards of living that we can't possibly pass on to our children.
The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political skills to thwart serious action on global warming.
The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
I think the fact that we allow guns in our country is the main problem with school shootings.
The more we can get Washington out of the way, the stronger our economy and our country will be.
The more we're doing to ensure we're following our joy and passion, that's when we really start to put the gas in our lives.
So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.
Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.
Food is not the problem. It's what we do with food that becomes the problem. That's why we need to learn to keep everything in our lives - especially our eating - in proper balance.
As we regularly spend time reading God's Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.
We all need God's power in our lives, and prayer is the dynamic that releases His power, sometimes in dramatic ways.
There are times when God leaves huge question marks as tools in our lives to stretch our our faith.
It's impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.
When we make a true commitment to walk in love, it usually causes a huge shift in our lifestyle. Many of our ways - our thoughts, our conversation, our habits - have to change.
One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.
Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.
Kyle Idleman’s Not a Fan is a crucial message for our time. It’s a powerful call to commitment and to following Jesus with all our hearts that has challenged me in the best of ways!
The critics who love are the severe ones . . . we know our relationship must be based on honesty.
What we have come to, through a combination of popular psychology and expanding technology, is a presumption that all our thoughts and feelings are worth uttering.
When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.
Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.
Perhaps in the long view, de Gaulle was more responsible with his troublesome interventions into our domestic politics, for unifying our country than we will ever give him credit for.
As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it...Children trust the power of words.
Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.
When we survey our lives, seeking to fulfil our creativity, we often see we had a dream that went glimmering because we believed, and those around us believed, that the dream was beyond our reach.
It is the inner commitment to be true to ourselves and follow our dreams that triggers the support of the universe.
No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.
When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are tendered conscious.
When you watch your mum and dad sing and they're happy and it brings them joy, it is then a natural choice to go where the joy is. Music was always that place in our family.
Our Lord God shewed that a deed shall be done, and Himself shall do it, and I shall do nothing but sin, and my sin shall not hinder His Goodness working.
Right before I met my husband, I always felt as if the party was happening somewhere else. And once I met him and we had our children, I was like, 'This is where the party is.'
Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no better than the oppressive kings from whom our fathers fled?
We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives.
We can not imaging the pain, You must all be feeling At the loss of Your loving son But just to let you know You are in our thoughts, At this very sad time.
I'm also fascinated by the interplay between personal history and the larger forces that form the context for our lives.
We have to shine a bright light on horrific moments in society if we're going to create a better world for our children.
There were only two kinds of people in our town. ―The stupid and the stuck- ―The ones who are bound to stay or too dumb to go. Everyone else finds a way out.
Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.
I am continually trying to find meaning in the world. If we cannot find some ultimate significance or value in our lives, we fall very easily into despair.
Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.
It's a complex system we live in to think the actions that we take have consequences beyond the years in which we serve, and we all have an obligation to do what is best for our country.
The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.