E.S. Russell Quotes
Our ability to solve problem is limited by our conception of what is feasible.
in the corner of the painting of successthe signature is blurred
People always knock what's new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We're living in it.
Like the kite that caught up to the sky, painted with clouds, I lost track of it, but it was connected by string, something I was holding, something I could always bring back.
I love introverts. They don't waste words. Excessive extroverts can be very wasteful. I don't trust them in any kind of intricate or delicate matter.
To make a difference in the world, it only takes one optimistic person, who can gather millions of people to make the change.
I should have titled it "Diet Like Your Life Depended On It!" because it's about so much more than just beating Diabetes.
His greatest satisfaction as a priest was to grant absolution, to help people forgive themselves for not being perfect, make amends, and get on with life.
I'm not going anywhere, " she told me that night. But until we are old ladies--a cypress age, a Sawtooth age--I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love.
For everyone who never smiled in school photos, for all who’ve wandered city streetsnot knowing the where they were or feeling alone, I’ve packed kindness.
I don’t believe we should carry backupplans in life’s suitcase—they’re too easy to unpack like living a life in yoga pants, so comfortable our hips spreadinto new timezones...
Just because you pretend the universe doesn't have teeth doesn't mean you won't get eaten in the end.
The body was an organic machine, period, and God was a figment of its fitful imagination.
But men are such strange creatures, really. I think most of them would rather we weren’t around at all, so they could just spend time mooning over each other. Hero worship and all that stuff.
Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like "Second Tall Man".
I have forgotten more of my life than I remember, and with my forgetting I have lost my being.
We find it difficult to distinguish between spiritual combatants… and their hostages.
What laid me low was no mystical vision, no message from God, but a blow of compassion. In a wakeful mind, no force is more terrible, or precious.
If a local doesn't have to pay it, there's a way for traveler's to get around it.
When you are a long way from where you think you belong, you will attach yourself to people you would otherwise ignore or even dislike.
There is a loneliness that must be particular to monsters, I think, the feeling that each is the only child of a species. And now that loneliness was over.
By acknowledging spirit with gratitude, you bring it joy and give it more strength to do its work.
The power to reach our goal is always in the moment. When the moment arrives, be ready to perform the action that will help you reach your goal, and be aware when the moment is now.
There were times when it seemed the different parts of him where not all under the same management.
Everything happening to you now is a signal or symbol and has meaning. Your opportunity is to recognize the meaning and utilize it in your life.
The culture around us knows what it means when they see a church in perpetual bluster and outrage. They know that we are scared.
Pull yourself out of the dirt, dust yourself off, and get back on the horse and ride towards the sunset.
It is much more enjoyable to love success than to hate failure.
Be mindful of those who take credit for your success or blame you for their failures.
It was a failure of pedagogical nerve, she reminded herself, to give up on a student.
All desire, Tracy had had occasion since to think, is to some degree monstrous.
When you get right down to it, we don’t ever want to know one another too well. We want there to be that mystery. Where there’s mystery, there’s hope.
I do, " Ellie said, then groaned inwardly. Those were the words that had put her in this position in the first place.
When Uncle W. G. held out his hand to take my money, I dropped the dead mouse in his hand.
If the apostles reminded even Paul himself to remember the poor (Galatians 2:10), then surely the rest of us need such a reminder.
Can't abide adventure. 'Adventure' is a word people use to put a shine on lack of preparation and surviving through dumb luck.
The truth is, our parents are but part of the equation that forms us―because the only thing more powerful than fate is free will.
If I’ve learned one thing, it’s that the unfortunate thing about life is that everything’s mixed. There’s no absolute good and there’s no absolute evil. There’s just a lot of confusion.