Alanndarian Quotes

When the greedy executives of rich religions go before Him, they will say, "Remember me for who I was." And God will answer, "I do remember but you have forgotten who you use to be. ~ Shannon L. Alder

Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline. ~ Will Rogers

Helping people grow and achieve their dreams is the fastest route to success. ~ T. Harv Eker

The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ... The church also exists for a third purpose, which serves the other two: to encourage one another, to build one another up in faith, to pray with and for one another, to learn from one another and teach one another, and to set one another examples to follow, challenges to take up, and urgent tasks to perform. This is all part of what is known loosely as fellowship. ~ N. T. Wright

A concrete example of this mechanism is found in one of the most alarming phenomena of the last thirty years: the enormous increase in the police force of all countries. The increase of population has inevitably rendered it necessary. However accustomed we may be to it, the terrible paradox should not escape our minds that the population of a great modern city, in order to move about peaceably and attend to its business, necessarily requires a police force to regulate the circulation. But it is foolishness for the party of "law and order" to imagine that these "forces of public authority" created to preserve order are always going to be content to preserve the order that that party desires. Inevitably they will end by themselves defining and deciding on the order they are going to impose- which, naturally, will be that which suits them best. ~ Ortega Y Gasset

He smiled.
Her stomach felt strange.
She tried to smile back. She really should be going.
So naturally, she did not move. ~ Julia Quinn

I was a litigation lawyer. That's all very logical. Become a litigation lawyer. Become successful. Have a nice office. But there was some pull inside of me saying, self-publish this book. I followed that intuition and it's been a great choice for me in my life. ~ Robin S. Sharma

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals. ~ Jim Rohn

We spend our lives complicating what we would do better to accept. Because in acceptance, we put our energies into transcendence. ~ Amy Harmon