Fred Beckey Sayings

#1. All the trouble starts when people forget they're human.

Oliver Sacks

#2. We belong to talking, not what talking is about ... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

Zygmunt Bauman

#3. Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.

Charles Spurgeon

#4. In those stories, one is often asked to do something unimaginably terrible to the creature. Cut off it's head, say. A test. Not a test of love. A test of trust. Trust lifts the spell.

Holly Black

#5. But in all His dealings with His creatures God has maintained the principles of righteousness by revealing sin in its true character-by demonstrating that its sure result is misery and death.

Ellen G. White

#6. Surely you can hear him now?

Alastair Reynolds

#7. Should I divulge that she adored soldiers? She was mad about them. Whenever she caught sight of a soldier, she would think, trembling with excitement: is he going to murder me?

Clarice Lispector

#8. We are encouraged to see honest people as naive, as potential losers.

Bell Hooks

#9. I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.

Marjane Satrapi

#10. Shame often causes me to hide my mistakes from others. But really, when I make a mistake, I should make it loud and clear, so I can see that it didn't work as a strategy, and be able to make a course correction, either by myself or with the help of others.

Sharon Weil

#11. You have untold strengths and resources inside. You have your glorious self.

Sue Monk Kidd