Angela Doll Carlson Quotes

“But no matter what my eyes report, there is beauty that lives under the skin, under the surface, under the standards set up for me by outside arbiters of what is good and true. Those arbiters are not always so reliable. They can be bought and sold. They can be marketed and manufactured. The real standards, the ones set forth by the One who made me, are solid, knitted into me at my beginning. This beauty is true and real, and it lives within the heart. It is my heart that must be trained to recognize this beauty.”

“The reader is the final arbiter.”

“What power has law where only money rules?”

“The arbiter of a demanding wargame rendered the word "mismatch" as "challenge" in his language.”

“Do I believe in God? Sure. So I believe the Bible is the arbiter of theological knowledge? There it gets a little hazy.”

“This emperor was arbiter of the whole world at nineteen, and yet would have a man to be thirty before he could be fit to determine a dispute about a gutter.”

“The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and should anything go wrong, they are the persons taking most of the heat.”

“So the starry sky turns round like a millstone, always bringing some trouble, and men being born or dying.”

“My position as a follower of God is not to show you how close I am to God—my job is to show you how close you are to God […]. (Simon)”

“After all, I was once like you are, but being the right sort I got where I am.”