Books Inform But Bible Transforms Quotes & Sayings

Before you pray, check to see whether you believe or doubt that you will be heard. If you are doubting or uncertain, or if you are merely trying a prayer to see what happens, your prayer won't be worth anything. — Martin Luther

Ah, deserve," sighed Kindwind. "The notion of deserved and undeserved is a fancy. Knowing both life and death, we endeavor to impose worth and meaning upon our deeds, and thereby to comfort our fear of impermanence. We choose to imagine that our lives merit continuance. Mayhap all sentience shares a similar fancy. Mayhap the Earth itself, being sentient in its fashion, shares it. Nonetheless it is a fancy. A wider gaze does not regard us in that wise. The stars do not. Perhaps the Creator does not. The larger truth is merely that all things end. By that measure, our fancies cannot be distinguished from dust. "For this reason, Giants love tales. Our iteration of past deeds and desires and discoveries provides the only form of permanence to which mortal life can aspire. That such permanence is a chimera does not lessen its power to console. Joy is in the ears that hear. — Stephen R. Donaldson

Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use — William Shakespeare

Perfection is so beautiful and wonderful that even the stone-blind and purblind see it. — Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Binge on giving, in all senses. Binge on indulging. We're told every day from an early age that moderation is key. Count your calories, wait a while before you tell someone you love them, and remember that balance is the path to happiness. While all of those are great in theory, does a lesson taught from someone else's mistakes resonate just as deeply as the ones you learn yourself? When you binge, you find your own boundaries. — Tyler Oakley

Words on a page were seductive, free, inviting everyone, without distinction. — Leila Aboulela

Feeling and thinking are directly proportional to each other and inseparable. — Anuj

Whatever is difficult for you become easy if you take a bite of it every day. Try again and again! — Israelmore Ayivor

If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens. — George Washington

I showed up in October 1946, part of an early surge that would become a great nationwide baby boom. My sister Kathy was born a year later. — Tim O'Brien

My parents probably feel closer to the U.S. They feel America came to our rescue in the war and all that sort of thing. And for their generation the war still goes on. We still save food and little bits get scraped off and boiled out the next day. — John Gimlette

You must remain. I must depart.
Two autumns falling in the heart. — Buson

Our parents are the coolest parents ever. No other generation went on from writing letters to their own parents to sending snapchats to their own kids. — Sharad Vivek Sagar