#u

There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book. ↗

— Asne Seierstad

#change #different #had #i #nothing

I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace. ↗

— Criss Jami

#content #contentment #eating #enjoyment #faith

Get close enough to someone and his or her halo slips--not because they're bad, but because they're mortal. ↗

— Patricia Raybon

#forgiveness

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally. ↗

— Callie Khouri

#baseball #because #couple #get #happen

There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help. ↗

— Jason Kidd

#good #help #improvement #nucleus #players

Even though Christ Himself would not deliver us from the power of the Totalitarian State, as He did not deliver Himself, we must see His purpose in it all. Maybe his children are being persecuted by the world in order that they might withdraw themselves from the world. Maybe His most violent enemies may be doing His work negatively, for it could be the mission of totalitarianism to preside over the liquidation of a modern world that became indifferent to God and His moral laws. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#god-s-will #jesus #morality #the-cross #totalitarianism

Praise is declaration, a victory cry, proclaiming faith to stand firm in the place God has given you. Praise is a proclamation that the enemy's intent to plunder you will not rock you. Praise declares that you will not be moved by the enemy's attempt to snatch you away. ↗

— Darlene Zschech

#inspirational #jesus #praise #faith

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down? ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

#food #into #machine #mouth #pushes

Revolutions are not made for export. ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

#made #revolutions

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward. ↗

— Victor Kiam

#even #face #fall #forward #moving