As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyone else in the supermarket's checkout line is just as… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
God intentionally allows you to go through painful experiences to equip you for ministry to others. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I have noticed bakers with swelled hands, and painful, too; in fact the hands of all such workers become much thickened by… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image
I watched him, and I watched him die, and it was so painful for me, because I really loved Freddie Mercury, the… — Dave Mustaine Copy Share Image
In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that. — John Green Copy Share Image
The first two months were painful and they really tested my manhood because there were times I didn’t want to get up… — Adrian Peterson Copy Share Image
Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation,… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a… — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's not 'natural' to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting, articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little - have… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I think there are different kinds of poetry for different stages of life and there's the wild, exuberance of youth, there's the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above… — Jean-Dominique Bauby Copy Share Image
The key to being able to let go of all the stuff you're holding on to is knowing that you'll be okay… — John C. Parkin Copy Share Image
I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
You know, they've got these chocolate assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat all the ones… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Those who were so long imprisoned in ice and darkness seem to find the sunlight jarring, painful. The longer I walk around… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
