Auteurs Starting Quotes & Sayings

We seem to think that God wants us to give up things! ... God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having
viz., life with Himself. — Oswald Chambers

Through discussions, reading, contemplation, and practice I've come to recognize the importance of subtle feelings and symbols. By paying attention to subtle energy, typically in the form of thoughts and feelings, we began to tap into our inner capacity to commune with those we've loved and lost, as well as other streams of consciousness and information. — Mark Ireland

As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I try to tell to you wherein it consists, I helplessly describe only a type. — Josiah Royce

( ... ) I could "talk fast"
that's to say, without hesitating, stammering
most of the time
but there were categories of words, sentiments, I could never say, they'd have stuck in my throat. The embarrassment of it even whispering-teasing to Legs for instance 'Yeah you're my heart too!' or 'I love you' or 'I would die for you', nobody ever talked that way, mostly there was just my mother and me and we hardly talked at all. — Joyce Carol Oates

It seems to Henry, as he takes his seat in his usual middle pew, that women are far braver than men — Elizabeth Strout