Quotes About Nadia

#1. Creativity is the Blue Heron within us waiting to fly; through her imagination, all things become possible. - Author: Nadia Janice Brown

#2. We have to hear again and again who God is for us and what God has done on our behalf. We must free each other from bondage through our confession and forgiveness. - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#3. What they don't tell you when you get sober is that if you manage to stay that way, you will bury your friends. Not everyone gets to have a whole new shiny-but-messy life like I have, and I've never come up with a satisfying explanation for why that is. - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#4. Poor girl. She ran out from under a leaking roof and sat in the rain. - Author: Nadia Hashimi

#5. Children are touched by heaven - their every breath, every laugh, every touch a sip of water to the desert wanderer. I could not have known this as a child, but I know it as a mother, a truth I learned as my own heart grew, bent, danced, and broke for each of my children - Author: Nadia Hashimi

#6. What good are dreams if they lie only in closed boxes. - Author: Nadia Janice Brown

#7. This face. I could love this face. And everything about the guy that goes along with it." - Nadia, Chapter Eight - Author: Ann Aguirre

#8. The Bible is not God. The Bible is simply the cradle that holds Christ. Anything in the Bible that does not hold up to the Gospel of Jesus Christ simply does not have the same authority. - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#9. 'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.' - Author: Nadia Giosia

#10. I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age. - Author: Nadia Comaneci

#11. Don't travel alone ... meet up with others who are traveling also on the path of change, you can learn from each other a lot and together carry more learning experiences (social learning and collective intelligence). -Nadia Gabriela Dresscher - Author: Lambert Of Maastricht

#12. Grudges don't die - people do. - Author: Nadia Hashimi

#13. Nothing's ever simple. I just don't want you to ignore possibilities out of fear. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith, believing that somebody's going to catch you. - Author: Nadia Lee

#14. One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989. - Author: Nadia Comaneci

#15. It's like a person who gets a taste of Christ, falls in love with Him, and then casts Him aside. That love never lets go, that yearning to be with Jesus, and there's no rest until the relationship is restored." Nadia - Author: Brigette Manie

#16. We weren't a ship of fools so much as a rowboat of idiots. - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#17. Every promise we kept, every squeeze of the hand, every secretive smile we exchanged, every crying child we comforted- every one of those moments narrowed the distance between us. - Author: Nadia Hashimi

#18. Every time I go look for God amidst sorrow, I always find Jesus at the cross, in death and resurrection. This is our God. - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#19. This was the bonus to liberal Christianity: I could use my reason and believe at the same time. - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#20. I always have a good quality extra virgin olive oil. A cheap quality oil will end up cheapening your dishes. And I love sweetening my dishes with maple syrup. It has a bit of a bitter kick at the end that works wonderfully in savory dishes. - Author: Nadia Giosia

#21. Sometimes help comes from unexpected places. - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#22. Some truths need to be said out loud before they can be believed - Author: Nadia Hashimi

#23. We were pressed against each other, a husband and wife bound together not by marriage, but by the harmony of our hearts. Death could not undo us, I'd learned. My hamsar was with me still. He would watch over us, my beloved husband, as we made our way into tomorrow. - Author: Nadia Hashimi

#24. It would seem that when we are sinned against, when someone else does us harm, we are in some way linked to that sin, connected to that mistreatment like a chain. And our anger, fear, or resentment doesn't free us at all. It just keeps us chained. - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#25. I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot - Author: Nadia Comaneci

#26. You?" Nadia sounded disbelieving. - Author: Lisa Jackson

#27. As you can see, I've got legs. I can also assure you that I know how to use them. Any questions? - Author: Nadia Scrieva

#28. There could be nothing worse than choosing between two children. Ask me to choose between my right arm and my left and I will give you one. But ask me to choose between two of my children and my heart shatters into a thousand pieces. - Author: Nadia Hashimi

#29. The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. - Author: Nadia Boulanger

#30. When I walked out of the house with hijab on, i felt beautiful in the eyes of Allah. I felt protected, shielded - i just felt somebody was watching over me'
- Nadia, a reverted Muslim - Author: Na'ima B. Robert

#31. The past is never really gone. It only lies in wait for you, remembered or forgotten. - Author: Sharon Cameron

#32. If you wait to dance on the moon, you may never dance at all. - Author: Nadia Hashimi

#33. Because in these healing texts, Jesus does not just cure people's diseases and cast out their demons and then say, "Mission accomplished." He's always after something more than that because the healing is never fully accomplished until there is a restoration to community. - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#34. The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial to get your academic studies out of the way before going into the competitive world of the arts. - Author: Nadia Ali

#35. Children always forgive their mothers. That's the way God's designed them. He gives them two arms, two legs, and a heart that will cry 'mother' until the day it stops beating. - Author: Nadia Hashimi

#36. I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software. - Author: Nadia Ali

#37. Diplomacy never works. - Author: Nadia Scrieva

#38. He sells his loyalties to the highest bidder. Shouldn't even a mercenary have morals? That's the textbook definition of a whore! - Author: Nadia Scrieva

#39. Love grows wildest in the gardens of hardship. - Author: Nadia Hashimi

#40. Watching Nadia rest peacefully in my embrace, I am reminded that it is the woman who is marveled upon, where man kneels in silence to honor and respect; and it is that same marvel that cures a good man into being a better man if not the world. - Author: Luccini Shurod

#41. But at the time I didn't know that it would take more to escape black-and-white thinking than just no longer attending your parents' church. The church had provided me a sorting system, which was now ingrained. It had containers into which every person and idea and event was to be placed. - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#42. Exercising with a trainer makes my quality of life go through the roof. - Author: Nadia Giosia

#43. Am I supposed to want you this much?
Nadia. You are supposed to have me anytime, anywhere, any way you wish. - Author: Eileen Wilks

#44. That is the problem with gifts, Madar-jan. They are always given away. - Author: Nadia Hashimi

#45. I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat. - Author: Nadia Giosia

#46. With sunglasses, a hat, and half a pack of Band-Aids, Roger could pass as a human. - Author: Nadia Higgins

#47. Trying to prove scientifically the historical accuracy of events in the Bible is to faith what having your spouse under twenty-four-hour video surveillance is to marital trust. - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#48. Sometimes the storm in a person's mind raged too strongly. - Author: Nadia Hashimi

#49. He said that there would be more information available in the narthex. I leaned over to Matthew and whispered, The Narthex? Isn't that a Dr. Suess character that speaks for the trees?? - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#50. Knowing all of this makes me love and hate Jesus at the same time. Because, when instead of contrasting good and evil, he contrasted truth and evil, I have to think about all the times I've substituted being good (or appearing to be good) for truth. - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#51. I think being an Asian woman has been more of an advantage than a disadvantage. It helps me stand out from the rest of the entertainers out there. Again, being from such an ethnically diverse place like New York, you get comfortable and confident with being different! - Author: Nadia Ali

#52. Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents. - Author: Nadia Bjorlin

#53. Identity. It's always God's first move. Before we do anything wrong and before we do anything right, God has named and claimed us as God's own. - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#54. The adjective so often coupled with mercy is the word tender, but God's mercy is not tender; this mercy is a blunt instrument. Mercy doesn't wrap a warm, limp blanket around offenders. God's mercy is the kind that kills the thing that wronged it and resurrects something new in its place. - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#55. It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could. - Author: Nadia Boulanger

#56. Every human community will disappoint us, regardless of how well-intentioned or inclusive. - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#57. North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge. - Author: Nadia Giosia

#58. Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread. - Author: Nadia Giosia

#59. Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality. - Author: Nadia Boulanger

#60. My family understands the pain of struggling with a loved one who's suffering from a blood-related cancer, and we seek to support those who are working to find a cure. - Author: Nadia Bjorlin

#61. Without discipline, there can be no freedom. - Author: Nadia Boulanger

#62. Don't ever
let Them tell you
you are
too broken
to bloom - Author: Nadia Hasan

#63. The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy. - Author: Nadia Boulanger

#64. On education - Every bit does some good. I'm lucky I know how to read. It's a candle in a dark room. What I don't know, I can find out for myself. It's easier to fool someone who can't figure things out on his own. - Author: Nadia Hashimi

#65. Of course if no one had ever been exposed to dangerous ideas from scandalous women, Christianity itself would not have had its unique beginning nor its glorious history, but whatever. - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#66. The holy things we need for healing and sustenance are almost always the same as the ordinary things right in front of us. - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#67. Getting closer to God might mean getting told to love someone I don't even like, or to give away even more of my money. It might mean letting some idea or dream that is dear to me get ripped away. - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#68. Don't give life to regrets and live on ifs and only, when you can no more unscramble an egg than change the past. - Author: Nadia Janice Brown

#69. It is easier to analyze a work in its form, in its evolution, than simply to love it with all the living forces of our heart. It is easier to define its peculiarities and its details than to draw out of it its emotion, its thought. - Author: Nadia Boulanger

#70. We are too shortsighted to rejoice in the moments that deserve it. - Author: Nadia Hashimi

#71. I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.' - Author: Nadia Giosia

#72. Everything else is temptation. - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#73. On All Saints' Sunday, I am faced with sticky ambiguities around saints who were bad and sinners who were good. - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#74. The crucifixion portrayed on our show was undertaken by the son of God, a trained professional. Do not try to crucify yourself at home. - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#75. But trying to conjure my mother was like trying to hum a song I'd never heard. - Author: Nadia Hashimi

#76. If I work on a certain move constantly, then finally, it doesn't seem risky to me. The idea is that the move stays dangerous and it looks dangerous to my foes, but it is not to me. Hard work has made it easy. - Author: Nadia Comaneci

#77. All I'm trying to say is, you may not know that the path you chose will lead to happiness, but as long you know that what you want is happiness, you'll have the courage to move forward - Author: Nadia Khan

#78. Sin is the self curved in on the self. - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#79. People who are beset by tragedy once and twice are sure to grieve again. Fate finds it easier to retrace its treads. - Author: Nadia Hashimi

#80. When you fall, leap to your feet and try again. - Author: Nadia Comaneci

#81. What he wanted to say was that two thousand years of peace could be undone in a month of war. - Author: Nadia Hashimi

#82. Gratitude is a way of creativity. - Author: Nadia Bandura

#83. He did not live in fear of God because, he reasoned, a merciful God would not create us only to punish us for trivial earthly matters. - Author: Nadia Hashimi

#84. Fiction, if done right, can bridge cultural divides. Stories can be a footpath for a reader to step into another land and view its indigenous practices and beliefs through a local lens, instead of a telescope. - Author: Nadia Hashimi

#85. But I was afraid. Maybe he would believe me, take my word that the guards had let me go. That Badriya had said it was all right. That I did nothing inappropriate or shameful at the resource center. Impossible. We - Author: Nadia Hashimi

#86. It's my choice today that is the memory of tomorrow. It's my choice that determines what I will become. Not the memories of the past. - Author: Sharon Cameron

#87. The person who doesn't appreciate the apple, doesn't appreciate the orchard. - Author: Nadia Hashimi

#88. There is nothing boring in life except ourselves. - Author: Nadia Boulanger

#89. Nadia looked ... weird. Like chugged-a-Butterfinger-Blizzard-in-ninety-seconds-and-got-on-the-Tilt-A-Whirl weird. - Author: Claudia Gray

#90. It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift. - Author: Nadia Boulanger

#91. Church isn't perfect. It's practice. - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#92. The hell with naseeb. Naseeb is what people blame for every thing they can't fix. - Author: Nadia Hashimi

#93. What happens at the cross is a "blessed exchange." God gathers up all our sin, all our broken-ass junk, into God's own self and transforms all that death into life. Jesus takes our crap and exchanges it for his blessedness. - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#94. One day people will come back. they won't be able to help themselves. People need music and dance and beautiful things. They forget sometimes, but not forever. You'll see. One day, this will be a magical place again. With music and dance and good times and people celebrating. - Author: Nadia Aguiar

#95. It's about how God continues to reach into the graves we dig for ourselves and pull us out, giving us new life, in ways both dramatic and small. - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#96. I just want the feeling that I'm safe, the feeling that things can work out and that there'll be a happy ending someday. - Author: Nadia Simonenko

#97. I think I'm very blessed to have been raised by so many intelligent and impressive women, and now continuing that on a professional level, having people like Sarah and Nadia to guide me through this new phase of my career, is extremely significant. - Author: Zayn Malik

#98. I work out four to five days a week, alternating three workouts. - Author: Nadia Giosia

#99. The fact is, we are all, at once, bearers of the gospel and receivers of it. We meet the needs of others and have our needs met. And - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#100. My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians. - Author: Nadia Comaneci