Barwinners Quotes & Sayings

Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments of turning. — Madeleine L'Engle

In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced English playwrights of the seventeenth century. I wonder why certain playwrights decided to set their tragedies, written in English, in Italian palaces. — Jhumpa Lahiri

The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit. — Saint Francis De Sales

There is more grace in God's heart than there is sin in your past. — Erwin W. Lutzer

A legalist is not someone who places divine law above all else. A legalist is someone who places human law above all else. — Rob Rienow

Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth. — Arthur Ransome

He longs for the one line to give them that they will always remember, that will embrace everything, that will point the way, but he cannot find the line, he cannot recognize it. It is more precious, he knows, than anything else they might own, but he does not have it. — James Salter

A heart with so many stress fractures would never be anything but broken. — Jodi Picoult

Fear exists because we do not have faith. — Radhe Maa

It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning. — Gunter Grass

When you become a parent, that's a whole new level of life intruding. Nobody tells you how boring and time-sucking it's going to be! Or how the responsibility feels like an airbag going off in your life. — Maria Semple

If you're drowning for real, and nobody believes you, then you sure as hell better figure out how to swim. — Susan Wiggs

A gentleman can live through anything. — William Faulkner