Backslidden State Quotes

#1. In the West many Christians have an abundance of material possessions, yet they live in a backslidden state.

Brother Yun

#2. The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.

Shimon Peres

#3. The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.

Thomas Friedman

#4. We have been taught to suspect this resource, vilified, abused, and devalued within western society.

Audre Lorde

#5. It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes.

Colin Farrell

#6. I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run, less than what God wants in the Church.

Rowan Williams

#7. We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.

Federica Montseny

#8. The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To hell with restraint, it says, I have got to be going. It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become pieces.

Wendell Berry

#9. Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a disciplined sinner. Perfection, as Valery noted, is work.

Stanley Kunitz

#10. Adolin nodded curtly. He was still angry, Dalinar could see, but he chose to follow Dalinar - and part of following a leader was supporting him even when the battle turned against him.

Brandon Sanderson

#11. I didn't think I was going to play that day. I'd have to thank the training staff for getting me on the field that day. They made a bigger deal than I thought it was.

Ken Caminiti