Northfield Quotes

#1. The great preacher Dwight Moody once quipped, "Some day you will read in the papers that D. L. Moody, of East Northfield, is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now."1

Matt Chandler

#2. I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.

Cole Younger

#3. There was a film class in my high school in Northfield, Minnesota, which was very unusual. I saw my first Buster Keaton film there, aged about 15. It made a gigantic impression on me.

Siri Hustvedt

#4. Although I went to college in the United States - Carleton in Northfield, Minnesota - I returned to the Middle East for a year in 1970-71 to study at the American University of Beirut.

Kai Bird

#5. My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.

John Wesley

#6. Love is the ultimate outlaw.

Tom Robbins

#7. I tend to eat geographically. When I'm in L.A., I like to eat L.A. food.

Lucy Punch

#8. I tend to fight for something that I believe in.

Christina Ricci

#9. If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.

Jackie French

#10. Nobody is responsible for your sorrows and poverty, not even the devil. It is the work of the enemies of time that lives in some men, and their names are, 'Laziness and Procrastination'.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#11. There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbor.

John Calvin

#12. The Gmail app is definitely the app I use the most. I am always running from meeting to meeting, so it keeps me up-to-date with everything going on. I actually e-mail more often from my iPhone than my laptop, so having a nicely designed e-mail app is really important.

Leah Busque

#13. The world around me was oblivious, but for once, I felt absolute

Rebecah McManus

#14. I don't want everybody to try to sound like something; I think that God has given us each unique talents and passions. The things that come out of me will be different than my neighbor, because I have a totally different set of relationships, totally different set influences and personality traits.

Michael Gungor

#15. There are periods when life is so pleasant one can almost imagine the world is sun-dappled and safe.

Phyllis T. Smith

#16. Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee.

Van Morrison