Bahnsen Covenant Quotes

#1. Something about the beauty of the library and how many books there were made me feel really eager to read, and I couldn't wait to get some free time so I could go back there and explore.

Francine Prose

#2. If my results are not good I will lose my job.

Stuart Pearce

#3. One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

Howard Zinn

#4. I have been in lots of very intense life situations. I have been shot at, and I have been hungry, and I have been in solitude, and I have also briefly been behind bars. So in a way, I know the heart of men.

Werner Herzog

#5. Zoya stared up at Nina in wonder. "You're alive," she said. Her gaze slid to Matthias, thrashing like the biggest, angriest butterfly ever pinned to a page. "And you've made a new friend.

Leigh Bardugo

#6. I don't know whether computers are improving the style of play, I know they are changing it. Chess has become a different game, one could say that computers have changed the world of chess. That is pretty clear.

Vladimir Kramnik

#7. and in time, when yet very young, he became chief mate of a fine ship, without ever having been tested by those events of the sea that show in the light of day the inner worth of a man, the edge of his temper, and the fibre of his stuff; that reveal the quality of his resistance and the

Joseph Conrad

#8. Going into the woods, you can go as fast or as slow as you want. It's restorative. Even when I was young, the wilderness offered not only adventure but also therapy and peace: a place to be alone with your thoughts.

Jennifer Pharr Davis

#9. Be merciful until you can't be.
Until you feel your heart begin to harden into a bullet.
Then use that bullet.

Clementine Von Radics

#10. We strive to further the occurrence of whatever we imagine will lead to Joy, and to avert or destroy what we imagine is contrary to it, or will lead to Sadness.

Baruch Spinoza

#11. The world is in a mad dash of personal peace and affluence. Sadly, too often the evangelical church is not much different. Of course, we want our children to become Christians. But that is just an addition to the all-consuming goal, that they would attain their own personal peace and affluence.

R.C. Sproul Jr.

#12. Where you are is not who you are

Ursula Burns

#13. A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.

David Mallet

#14. I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

Kurt Vonnegut