Helen Hemphill quotes

  • I'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.

  • By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV show, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.

  • The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to.

  • Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.

  • I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

  • I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

  • The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

  • As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.

  • The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters.

  • Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.

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