Nadia Famous Quotes & Sayings
100 Nadia Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
This is our God. Not a distant judge nor a sadist, but a God who weeps. A God who suffers, not only for us, but with us. Nowhere is the presence of God amidst suffering more salient than on the cross. Therefore what can I do but confess that this is not a God who causes suffering. This is a God who bears suffering. I need to believe that God does not initiate suffering; God transforms it.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
But inevitably, when I can't harm the people who harmed me, I just end up harming the people who love me. So maybe retaliation or holding on to anger about the harm done to me doesn't actually combat evil. Maybe it feeds it. In the end, if we're not careful, we can actually absorb the worst of our enemy and on some level even become them.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.— Nadia Boulanger
Showbiz can be cruel.— Nadia Bjorlin
For some people life outside the spotlight is death.— Nadia Comaneci
That's what being a mother is, isn't it? Waiting for a rounded belly to tighten in readiness; listening for the sound of hunger in the moonlit hours; hearing an eager voice call even in the camouflage of traffic, loud music, and whirring machines. It's looking at every door, every phone, and every approaching silhouette and feeling that slight lift, that tickle of opportunity to be again - mother.— Nadia Hashimi
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.— Nadia Boulanger
A lot of people have their own perceptions about me, like I'm very stuck up, so full of myself, you know. But it's not true ... ,— Nadia Buari
I've never fully understood how Christianity became quite so tame and respectable, given its origins among drunkards, prostitutes, and tax collectors.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
He tried to work alongside his father as a carpenter but a man who had been taught only to destroy found it hard to create.— Nadia Hashimi
You don't have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I'd pit my grandmother against a 3-star Michelin chef any day.— Nadia Giosia
Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance the night away to electronic music.— Nadia Ali
You do not require a license to love someone; you don't need to pass any complicated tests. Love does not have age limitations, rules, or restrictions. Love is our birthright - it is the one thing that all humans know how to do, the one thing we all deserve. You can't force it or fake it. You can know someone for an entire lifetime, and not feel a drop of love for them. And you can know someone for a single day, and give your heart to them completely.— Nadia Scrieva
As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in the wrong category ... Injustices in the world needed to be addressed and not ignored. Christians weren't good; people who fought for peace and justice were good. I had been lied to, and in my anger at being lied to about the containers, I left the church. But it turns out, I hadn't actually escaped the sorting system. I had just changed the labels.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.— Nadia Comaneci
This life is difficult. We lose fathers, brothers, mothers, songbirds and pieces of ourselves. Whips strike the innocent, honors go to the guilty, and there is too much loneliness. I would be a fool to pray for my children to escape all of that. Ask for too much and it might actually turn out worse. But I can pray for small things, like fertile fields, a mother's love, a child's smile - a life that's less bitter than sweet.— Nadia Hashimi
Whenever people annoy me beyond reason, I can guarantee it's because they're demonstrating something I'd rather not see in myself.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
I told them that when I heard Billy was bright, an artist and musician, and when I heard that he loved his family and loved people through difficulty in relationships, and when I heard that he struggled with heroin and booze addictions and an unhelpful brain chemistry, and when I heard that he was beautifully queer and passionate and sometimes played piano in his sister's dresses, I knew. I knew that Billy was pretty much exactly the kind of person Jesus would hang out with.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Shit," I thought to myself, "I'm going to be late to New Testament class.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
the thing that sucks is that every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
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.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Sin is the self curved in on the self.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
The Bible had been the weapon of choice in the spiritual gladiatorial arena of my youth. I knew how, wielded with intent and precision, the Bible can cut deeply, while on the one holding it can claim with impunity that this is from God.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
I knew from the moment I met you that we would end up here. I didn't know how, but I was determined. Now it's time for you to realize what I've know all along"— Nadia Aidan
" Really? And what's that?"
" That despite our differencies and all the obstacles we have before us, there couldn't be two people in the world more perfect for each other.
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.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
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— Nadia Hashimi
Matthew once said to me, after one of my more finely worded rants about stupid people who have the wrong opinions, "Nadia, the thing that sucks is that every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it." Damn.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Nadia shook her head, marveling at the capacity people had for ignoring what they had in common, and fighting bitterly over whatever small differences existed between them. She— Kim Stanley Robinson
God is always present in love and in suffering.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
The human spirit, you know what they say about the human spirit? Is is harder than a rock and more delicate than a flower petal.— Nadia Hashimi
Nadia Bolz-Weber, a Lutheran pastor, was once fuming to her husband against the wrong kind of Christians, and he told her that "every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it."39— William McDavid
Gratitude is a way of creativity.— Nadia Bandura
I started to imagine Mary tugging at the shirt of Jesus and saying, I will not keep silent. I will obey you and I will tell others to obey you but I will not keep silent. People are thirsty. In John's Gospel, Mary is not the young virgin pondering sweet things in her heart. In John's Gospel, Mary is not surrounded by singing angels... I started to see Mary in a long line of prophets who have not kept silent. The prophet Mary stands and says, "Lord we've run out of wine and people are thirsty." And Jesus hears her.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
We met the next day for coffee and when I asked her what was up she said, "I think I'm having a crisis of faith." To which I thought, what the hell does that look like for a Unitarian? "Yeah," she continued, "I-I think I believe in Jesus." Oh. That's what it looks like.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
I did not even look at the scoreboard when my routine was done in 1976. My teammates started pointing because there was this uproar (Nadia Comaneci). These remarks highlight an important feature of those practices that entail skilled and active engagement: one's attention is focused on standards intrinsic to the practice, rather than external goods that may be won through the practice, typically money or recognition. Can this distinction between internal and external goods inform our understanding of work?— Matthew B. Crawford
Sometimes the fact that there is nothing about you that makes you the right person to do something is exactly what God is looking for.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts.— E.L. Konigsburg
I believe that anyone can cook a great meal. Basically all you need to do is get your hands on some fresh ingredients and not be afraid to make a mess in the kitchen.— Nadia Giosia
How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen?— Nadia Scrieva
Nadia looked ... weird. Like chugged-a-Butterfinger-Blizzard-in-ninety-seconds-and-got-on-the-Tilt-A-Whirl weird.— Claudia Gray
[On the music of Richard Strauss:] Too many notes!— Nadia Boulanger
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Don't give life to regrets and live on ifs and only, when you can no more unscramble an egg than change the past.— Nadia Janice Brown
It's time to undo Rahim.— Nadia Hashimi
Usually when you are grieving and someone says something so senselessly optimistic to you, it's about them. Either they want to feel like they can say something helpful, or they simply cannot allow themselves to entertain the finality and pain of death, so instead they turn it into a Precious Moments greeting card.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
This face. I could love this face. And everything about the guy that goes along with it." - Nadia, Chapter Eight— Ann Aguirre
Some truths need to be said out loud before they can be believed— Nadia Hashimi
It's best not to depend on the gray haired. We're too close to God to rely on,— Nadia Hashimi
Nadia...first, I'm flattered you like me. You're a wonderful girl, and I'm lucky that I met you. You're one of my best friends, my only friends. And since that night with Ivy, you've been amazing. You and your brother have truly been there when I needed you to be."— Colleen Boyd
I sigh. "Maybe if things had stayed normal - if I never got attacked, if I never met Ivy - I may have been able to return your feelings. But now...right now, I need a friend more than a girlfriend to help me get through this."
Nadia didn't look very happy, but she nodded; she understood. "You really liked her, didn't you?"
There was no doubt about my answer.
"Yeah. I did. I still do. And I will for the rest of my life.
As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.— Nadia Ali
There are truths and lies and there are things in between, murky waters where light gets bent and broken.— Nadia Hashimi
I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted.— Nadia Boulanger
We bring the holy things of the church onto the holy streets of the city because on some level, the violence and despair of Good Friday is still a human reality. Unfortunately, we've never lacked an opportunity to pay such a visit.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
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— Nadia Khan
It was in those first couple months that I fell in love with liturgy, the ancient pattern of worship shared mainly in the Catholic, Lutheran, Orthodox, and Episcopal churches. It felt like a gift that had been caretaken by generations of the faithful and handed to us to live out and caretake and hand off. Like a stream that has flowed long before us and will continue long after us. A stream that we get to swim in, so that we, like those who came before us, can be immersed in language of truth and promise and grace. Something about the liturgy was simultaneously destabilizing and centering; my individualism subverted by being joined to other people through God to find who I was. Somehow it happened through God. One specific, divine force.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Sometimes the storm in a person's mind raged too strongly.— Nadia Hashimi
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.— Nadia Hashimi
There's not enough wrong with it to leave and there's just enough wrong with it to stay," Matthew later told me. "Fight to change it.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Yes indeed, both Muslim and Jewish!I, her father, am Muslim, at least on paper; her mother is Jewish, at least in theory. With us, religion is transmitted through the father; among Jews, through the mother. Therefore, according to the Muslims, Nadia was Muslim; according to the Jews, she was Jewish. She herself might have chosen one or the other, or neither, she chose to be both at once ... Yes, both at once and more. She was proud of all the bloodlines that had converged in her, roads of conquest or exile from central Asia, Anatolia, the Ukraine, Arab, Bessarabia, Armenia, Bavaria ... She refused to divide out her blood, her soul.— Amin Maalouf
A smile can change a day, a day can chance a life ~— Nadia Riell
In a city swollen by refugees but still mostly at peace, or at least not yet openly at war, a young man met a young woman in a classroom and did not speak to her. For many days. His name was Saeed and her name was Nadia and he had a beard, not a full beard, more a studiously maintained stubble, and she was always clad from the tips of her toes to the bottom of her jugular notch in a flowing black robe. Back then people continued to enjoy the luxury of wearing more or less what they wanted to wear, clothing and hair wise, within certain bounds of course, and so these choices meant something.— Mohsin Hamid
As far as I knew, Nadia was still with her new guy, some fancy tennis player from Brazil. Donatello or Michelangelo or something. Ninja Turtle? Yeah.— Ilsa Madden-Mills
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.— Nadia Hashimi
I will. See you later, and thanks again." Before Carlisle had a chance to leave out of the window she leaned over and kissed him, nothing ostentatious, just sweet and sensitive.— Ashley Nemer
He took no time in hesitating. He reached his arm out and pulled her body close to his. He pressed them together and let his mouth open hers, his tongue slipped inside, and he stole a few more moments of sweetness with her before slipping out of her window and walking down the street, into the distance and eventually out of sight.
This was the bonus to liberal Christianity: I could use my reason and believe at the same time.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Don't you dare come into my world and tell me what color the ocean is! It's black. Black as midnight. Black and awful!— Nadia Scrieva
That was her escape, I realized. Where her body couldn't take her, her mind went.— Nadia Hashimi
To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.— Nadia Boulanger
Grudges don't die - people do.— Nadia Hashimi
False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.— Nadia Boulanger
We got Martha Stewart legitimizing homemaking for her generation, and then there's this return to being interested in all things home, lifestyle, and food again. I think this generation is less about the frills and more about the flavor of things.— Nadia Giosia
Yes I am very spiritual cos I believe that in everything I do, I have to put God first,— Nadia Buari
A Machine to Make a Future is an insightful and creative contribution to the literature— Nadia Abu El Haj
both scholarly and journalistic
on contemporary genomics. By 'experimenting' with narrative genre, the authors hope to generate different insights into the world of genomics and biotechnology than ones generally presented in existing accounts. They succeed at that goal, providing an account that is ethnographically rich and analytically open to a world whose structure, implications, and outcomes are very much in the making.
What good are dreams if they lie only in closed boxes.— Nadia Janice Brown
Truths can be wholly contradictory, the blackest black and the whitest white at the same time.— Nadia Hashimi
Daniel, I'd trade a thousand grand gestures for that simple 'I love you' from your lips. You make me the happiest woman in the world.— Nadia Lee
Fear is a bird that refuses to fly, and each time she neglects to use her wings, she consents to the slow death of her destiny.— Nadia Janice Brown
Ethan nodded and fell in line behind Nadia, who trotted back up the stairs, her hair bouncing on her shoulders as she moved. Really - it was like watching a shampoo commercial.— Chloe Neill
Australia seems like a really faraway Canada, just with funnier animals.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
I need to be broken apart and put back into a different shape by that merging of things human and divine, which is really screwing up and receiving grace and love and forgiveness rather than receiving what I really deserve. I— Nadia Bolz-Weber
It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I was asked what I expected to do.— Nadia Comaneci
Oh, no, Nadia. There are plenty of limits, and trust me, the world will smack you down and teach you where they are. But make the world do that. Don't do it to yourself.— Claudia Gray
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.— Nadia Boulanger
Diplomacy never works.— Nadia Scrieva
Mean, if Jesus was vulnerable to temptation, the rest of us certainly are, whether it be temptation to self-loathing or self-aggrandizement, depression or pride, self-destruction or self-indulgence. We are tempted to doubt our innate value precisely to the degree that we are insecure about our identity from, and our relationship to, God.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
The eunuch sought God despite the fact that he had heard that there was no love for him there.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
But as much as being the person who is the best Christian, who "follows Jesus" the most closely can feel a little seductive, it's simply never been who I am or who my parishioners need me to be. I'm not running after Jesus. Jesus is running my ass down.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
He would ruin the Rodales and take the Halls down too, for good measure. He wanted them all to burn in hell, especially Natalie. That way, he'd have some company.— Nadia Lee
Truth. It can make me hate the person speaking it. Until the point at which I want to kiss them for setting me free.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Fear not, brothers and sisters, God, who is full of grace and abounding in steadfast love, meets us in our sin and transforms us for God's glory and the healing of God's world. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, your sins are forgiven, be now at peace.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
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.— Nadia Ali
It's never easy to leave one's home, especially when there are only closed doors ahead of you.— Nadia Hashimi
..."there's a special kind of hurt in learning that your parents are not the angels or saviors you wish them to be...— Nadia Hashimi
But times change. Everything changes. Birds fly away, one by one.— Nadia Hashimi
Everyone wants to tell you something -anything, everything - about themselves and they just go on and on and on. But when it comes time to show you who they are? Their shit is weak, Nadia. Their shit is lacking. And they just cover it up by talking more, by explaining away what can't be explained away. And then they go on talking more shit about someone else.— Dennis Lehane
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.— Nadia Bjorlin
I say no when I should say yes. I say yes when I should say no. I stumble into holy moments not realizing where I am until they are over. I love poorly, then accidently say the right thing at the right moment without even realizing it, then forget what matters, then show tenderness when it's needed, and then turn around and think of myself way too often.— Nadia Bolz-Weber
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.— Nadia Simonenko
I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.— Nadia Comaneci
My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.— Nadia Giosia
The elderly become invisible sooner than we would hope.— Nadia Hashimi
