quotes about According To Plan

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.”
“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.”
“Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.”
“Iâ€™ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine.”
“The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind. To stare at a mandala was to experience, if only briefly, the nothingness that is at the heart of enlightenment.”

Source : Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child (2010). “The Wheel of Darkness: An Agent Pendergast Novel”, p.124, Hachette UK
“The real spiritual journey is work. You can make a naÃ¯ve assertion that you trust in Jesus, but until it is tested a good, oh, 200 times, I doubt very much that it's true.”
“Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.”

Source : Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on women and revolution”, Oxford University Press
“Give me a prejudice and I will move the world.”
“I always carry prayer cards to St. Jude and St. Martha with me.”
“The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is neglected, forsaken, or corrupted, true holiness and worship will also be neglected, forsaken, and corrupted.”