
Top 52 D.r. Silva Quotes
#1. Perhaps the greatest lesson she'd learned was that the quality of one's relationships had less to do with time spent together than with the manner in which it was spent.
Linda Kay Silva
#2. Ask the question, receive the answer; don't ask the question, don't receive the answer.
D.R. Silva
#3. I watched the rows and rows of chappals left by devotees outside the Hindu temple and wondered if the homeless boys who sometimes steal our chickens ever steal them, and if they do, are they punished, and if so by whom?
Renita D'Silva
#4. I'd give up my career to chase moments with the right woman.
Claire Contreras
#5. I used to be afraid of the dark until I learned that I am light and the dark is afraid of me.
D.R. Silva
#6. Sometimes, it is easier to leave things as they are, rather than to fight, go against the flow.
Renita D'Silva
#7. If people think honoring pastors means doing everything they say, why don't they honor Jesus the same way?
D.R. Silva
#8. Where are the coconut trees bowing allegiance to the wind, the wide open spaces, the verdant green fields?
Renita D'Silva
#9. I can never endorse sin any more than when I tell people it's their nature to do it.
D.R. Silva
#10. There's a great drought in my village. People are dying. The price of rice and pulses has rocketed. There is no water anywhere. And here, people are complaining about the rain ...
Renita D'Silva
#11. I only run from darkness when I'm not confident in my ability to shine.
D.R. Silva
#12. Have you been reading those books that clueless illiterate Duja in charge of the lending library lets you borrow?' 'No, Ma.' 'Then what put you in mind of devils possessing nuns to take over the church?
Renita D'Silva
#13. If sickness brought glory God, Jesus would have spread disease, not healed it.
D.R. Silva
#14. What wouldn't my people give for a few bites of the biryani she ordered me to throw away yesterday because she said it smelt?
Renita D'Silva
#15. She was a sleuth and sleuths had to follow rules. 'Get to the point; don't allow the subject to digress' was one of them
Renita D'Silva
#16. How can a God who said, "Love your enemies" spend so much time killing His own?
D.R. Silva
#17. You don't live in luxury! You are relegated to sleep in the little store room behind the kitchen with the cockroaches and rats and are at the mercy of Mrs. Gupta,' Reena was indignant. 'It's five-star accommodation compared to a mud hut.
Renita D'Silva
#18. She could count three vessels - one small, one medium and one large as in the Goldilocks story - and
Neil D'Silva
#19. You are a girl, Shirin. Girls don't run around naked.'Why?'They just don't.
Renita D'Silva
#20. Here is a very simple and trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: If it's not about Christ, it's not Christianity.
D.R. Silva
#21. (L)ong term fundamental change can only come when we search our selves, our souls, our spirits, for an inner peace that can then reflect outwards in our actions.
Joyce D'Silva
#22. A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet.
D.R. Silva
#23. We get called dishonoring for pointing out the garbage in the church, yet nobody ever seems to think it's dishonoring that somebody put the garbage there in the first place.
D.R. Silva
#24. Telling people they don't have a sin nature doesn't promote sin anymore than telling a slave they are free promotes slavery.
D.R. Silva
#25. What says Christ doesn't return today and His most faithful followers don't turn around and have Him crucified again (if that were possible)? That's what happened the first time, after all.
D.R. Silva
#26. With his pewter-colored locks and sturdy jaw, Graham Seymour was the archetypal British civil servant, a man who'd been born, bred, and educated to lead. He was handsome, but not too; he was tall, but not remarkably so. He made others feel inferior, especially Americans.
Daniel Silva
#27. What am I doing here, Reena? Why am I dancing to the tunes of that old hag?'You are saving your family.
Renita D'Silva
#28. Forgiveness of sins is great, but I'd rather have the ability to quit doing the things I keep needing forgiveness for.
D.R. Silva
#29. The "more" of Christianity is a myth; a deceitful illusion designed to keep you busy and running in circles, always seeking but never finding, always learning but never coming to the knowledge of the Truth - a carrot on a stick, if you will.
D.R. Silva
#30. People always want the bad guy to pay for his sin, until they're him.
D.R. Silva
#31. I will never compromise Truth for the sake of getting along with people who can only get along when we agree.
D.R. Silva
#32. I wash the clothes, rinse them and then scrub them again. Will that square little box do that? I am not using any fancy machines when my hands will do.
Renita D'Silva
#33. I didn't know what to do when I realized that a religion that promised me heaven only seemed to bring me a perpetual hell. I was made to believe that was the normal Christian life; then I heard the gospel.
D.R. Silva
#34. If Jesus didn't do it, don't say the Father does. If Jesus did do it, don't say the Father doesn't.
D.R. Silva
#35. You put cow dung on my face?' 'Every day religiously until you were three. Why else do you think your skin is so clear?
Renita D'Silva
#36. Your behavior doesn't show you who you are, it shows you who you believe yourself to be.
D.R. Silva
#37. Make no mistake, sin has been dealt with once for all, and we are as close to Him as we will ever be.
D.R. Silva
#38. Repentance is a result of God's kindness, not a prerequisite to it.
D.R. Silva
#39. Christians are famous for telling people to be "child-like" and yet one of the greatest qualities of a child (the never ending list of questions) is often discouraged.
D.R. Silva
#40. What better hiding place than an old, woodlice-ridden album of photographs!
Renita D'Silva
#41. Every family has secrets, Reena, and they're there for a reason.
Renita D'Silva
#42. There are a lot of good speakers nowadays, but very few good teachers.
D.R. Silva
#43. But he's an untouchable, Shirin.' 'He's my Untouchable Prince Charming, then. Only I am allowed to touch him.
Renita D'Silva
#44. She liked the way a ray of mild autumn sun infiltrating the thick cluster of trees caught a reddish orange leaf swirling in the wind and transformed it golden yellow. She liked that it wasn't a leaf she recognised, that she could name or associate with her past.
Renita D'Silva
#45. Of course, I didn't know how I felt about my first kiss coming from one of the undead, but hey, beggars can't be choosers, and let me tell you something, Jesse was way cuter than any live guy I'd met lately.
Meg Cabot
#46. What use is status if you have no one to share it with, Dad?
Renita D'Silva
#47. The worst tragedy of sin isn't that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love.
D.R. Silva
#48. My job as a Christian is not to get people to heaven when they die, it's to get heaven to people while they're alive
D.R. Silva
#49. People who say we are just preaching "extreme grace" must not understand how extremely gracious our Father is.
D.R. Silva
#50. You don't need a Master's in Theology to love people.
D.R. Silva
#51. Only Jesus is perfect!" isn't in the Bible.
D.R. Silva
#52. Law does, "because God said so!"; Grace does because it understands the reason God said so.
D.R. Silva
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