Quotes on Turns

The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death issues affecting women in the Third World, particularly in rural areas where they have little protection against exploitation and injustice.

Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.

Those who cling to worthless idols_x000D_ turn away from God’s love for them._x000D_ 9 But I, with shouts of grateful praise,_x000D_ will sacrifice to you._x000D_ What I have vowed I will make good._x000D_ I will say, ‘Salvation comes from the Lord.’

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

Mind led body_x000D_ to the edge of the precipice._x000D_ They stared in desire_x000D_ at the naked abyss._x000D_ If you love me, said mind,_x000D_ take that step into silence._x000D_ If you love me, said body,_x000D_ turn and exist.

See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse- the blessing if you obey the commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you today; the curse if you disobey the commands of the LORD your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

Nowhere can anyone find a #‎ quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his or her own #‎ soul . We need to turn some things down and turn some things off. We need to be #‎ quiet .

It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .

God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away.

Things themselves cannot touch the soul, not in the least degree, nor have they admission to the soul nor can they turn or move the soul: it turns and moves itself alone and whatever judgment it may think proper to make, such it makes by remaking for itself the things that present themselves to it

Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet events that seem to turn our lives upside down and inside out are part of God's redemptive plan, not only for us, but for the world in which we live. God may be preparing a great awakening for the world, if God can find enough people to cooperate in this mysterious plan.

In the sea of love, I melt like salt Faith, Doubt - they both dissolve. A star is opening in my heart . The worlds turn in it.

Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.

Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.

Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.

Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible.