Maccabees Quotes

#1. The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light - in a little cruse - lasted as long as they say; but that the courage of the Maccabees lasted to this day: let that nourish my flickering spirit.

Charles Reznikoff

#2. I am relentlessly determine to be occupied with Jesus Christ and His Glorious Gospel and nothing else.

John Paul Warren

#3. Being a pacifist to save your own life is normal, being a pacifist for the lives of others is true pacifism.

Ammon Hennacy

#4. My mom was dead. My mom was dead. My mom was dead. Everything I ever imagined about myself had disappeared into the crack of her last breath. I

Cheryl Strayed

#5. I could still taste and smell and hear and see," she said. "I could still learn and I could still teach. I could still love and be loved. I had my mind and my spirit. And I had you.

Elizabeth Berg

#6. I struggle every day with trying to be a better dad, a better husband, better musician, better artist. It consumes me, and I don't see an end in sight.

Harry Connick Jr.

#7. Qhuinn: "What is wrong with you, that you care so much about me?"
Blay: "What is wrong with you, that you can't see why I would?

J.R. Ward

#8. We make tools for people. Tools to create, tools to communicate. The age we're living in, these tools surprise you ... That's why I love what we do. Because we make these tools, and we're constantly surprised with what people do with them.

Steve Jobs

#9. The church is the only institution supernaturally endowed by God. It is the one institution of which Jesus promised that the gates of hell will not prevail against it.

Charles Colson