Calvary Road Quotes

#1. Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.

John Piper

#2. The Calvary road with Jesus is not a joyless road. It is a painful one, but it is a profoundly happy one. When we choose the fleeting pleasures of comfort and security over the sacrifices and sufferings of missions and evangelism and ministry and love, we choose against joy.

John Piper

#3. It's not simply about reading fairytales as you grow older. It's about still finding the magic in fairytales when the world tells you you're too old to believe either.

Elle Alexander

#4. The big secret is the ability to stay in the room.

Ron Carlson

#5. My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

Jodi Picoult

#6. Late-night shortwave: province of ramblers and dreamers, madmen and ranters.

Anthony Doerr

#7. I'm in the business where you get the business all the time.

Cyndi Lauper

#8. A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

Ezra Pound

#9. I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.

Catherine McCormack

#10. To meditate is to listen with a receptive heart.

Gautama Buddha

#11. Companies don't have ideas. Only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds of loyalty and trust they develop around each other.

Margaret Heffernan

#12. I fear that in my eagerness to persuade you, I lost patience. And indeed I regret it.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#13. Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking; even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30,000 feet are remarkably slim. I also have no problem with confined spaces. Or heights. What I am afraid of is speed.

Sloane Crosley

#14. In his experience, premonitions of disaster were almost invariably proved false, and the road to Calvary entered on with the very lightest of hearts. MR

Pat Barker