Jenaya Okpalanze Quotes

#1. All of us have areas of weakness. God wants these character flaws to show us how totally dependent we are upon Him. When we handle them properly, they drive us into a deeper, more intimate relationship with the Lord. But uncontrolled weakness wreaks havoc in a person's life.

Charles Stanley

#2. The flowers are ravined
by bees, the fruit blossoms

are thrown to the ground, the wind
the rain forces everything.

Charles Olson

#3. Poland didn't experience a groundbreaking moment in 1989. We didn't storm the secret police building. The squads of secret police, with all their political baggage, remained unscathed.

Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

#4. I don't think you're going to get nominated every time you jump out of the box.

Morgan Freeman

#5. Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous

Muhammad Ali

#6. Happy are men who yet before they are killed
Can let their veins run cold.

Wilfred Owen

#7. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction.

Iris Murdoch

#8. My favorite thing that God gives is grace. It is without performance, free in Christ.

Luci Swindoll

#9. I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear.

Ray Charles

#10. The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality.

Arthur Koestler

#11. You must have a training routine so that what you do happens automatically. If I got up in the morning and thought about going for a run there would often be a number of possible arguments against it. The thing is to get out and run. Later you can wonder whether you should have or not.

Robert De Castella

#12. It would cause nothing but madness, Thomas thought. Men would fight for it, lie for it, cheat for it, betray for it and die for it. The Church would make money from it. It would cause nothing but evil, he thought, for it stirred horror from men's hearts,

Bernard Cornwell

#13. The one radio voice that I listened to above others belonged to Ella Fitzgerald. There was a quality to her voice that fascinated me, and I'd sing along with her, trying to catch the subtle ways she shaded her voice, the casual yet clean way she sang the words.

Doris Day