quotes about Religious Life

“Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.”

Source : Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.285, Penguin UK

“Girl Scouts is a girl-serving organization, so our members are girls.”

Source : "Girl Scouts About More Than Cookies, Says CEO". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 28, 2011.

“That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name.”

“The future cannot blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past. The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it into a fire to warm the world.”

Source : Susan Cooper (1977). “Silver on the Tree”, Simon & Schuster

“You could sing us the phone book and we would still love you.”

“A news junkie, I read, daily, the 'Times/Sunday Times,' the 'Guardian/Observer,' 'Mail,' and the 'Argus' - both to keep up with crime in Brighton, where I set my novels, and because I think it is vital to support local papers - they provide a unique accountability for councils, emergency services and so much else, and are dangerously undervalued.”

Source : "Peter James: My Media". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2010.

“Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.”

“One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.”

Source : Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (1892). “Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle”

“These days all you need is the ability to watch television and hold a potato at the same time to call yourself a designer.”

“Finish what you start, no matter how painful it may be.”