Nik Ripken Quotes

#1. Put a scoop of ice cream on it?" she asked. "And coffee. Everyone want coffee?" She looked inquiringly at us, smiling in a way that made me decidedly nervous, especially after that "I can get us a body" remark, and I nodded. Coffee? Why not?

Kim Harrison

#2. If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently ... And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Saint Francis De Sales

#3. Even though He wants our help, values our help, and calls for our help in changing the world, our all-powerful God is not helpless - even without us.

Nik Ripken

#4. It always turns out this way: at first people idolize you, swear to be your faithful friend forever and then spit in your tea and in your soul, too.

Igor Eliseev

#5. I'd rather be a comma than a full stop.

Chris Martin

#6. You are my beautiful forever ... a connection so deep that even an eternity doesn't seem long enough to spend with you.

Steve Maraboli

#7. I did see, however, what the Russian church had lost in its first decade of "freedom." Under communism, the church had found a way to survive and often thrive. Scripture and holy song was its lifeblood.

Nik Ripken

#8. Miracles are not the same as magic.

Danielle Paige

#9. Then he raised his voice in a prophet-like challenge that I knew would live with me forever: "Don't ever give up in freedom what we would never give up in persecution!

Nik Ripken

#10. Steal me something, Pim. After all, you're already stealing something of mine." My

Pepper Winters

#11. Inclusive economic institutions require secure property rights and economic opportunities not just for the elite but for a broad cross-section of society.

Daron Acemoglu

#12. Jesus commanded His followers to go into "all the world" - not only into all "the safe places in the world,

Nik Ripken

#13. Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.

Ann Patchett

#14. [...] if Jesus is not the answer to the human condition, there is no answer.

Nik Ripken

#15. I had the human rights life, and I had the family business life.

Sanjay Rawal