Chowder Chestnut Quotes & Sayings

There is in every intellect a natural exigency for a true concept of God: we are born with the thirst to know and to see Him, and therefore it cannot be otherwise. — Thomas Merton

I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your own eyes also. Is love content with that? — C.S. Lewis

The world is full of people running — Elizabeth Swados

She'd been trained to survive many things: starvation and bullet wounds. Winter nights and scouring sun. Double-tied knots and interrogations at knifepoint. But this? A boy's lips on hers. Moving and melding. Soft and strength, velvet and iron. Opposite elements that tugged and tor Yael from the inside. Feelings bloomed, hot and warm. Deep and dark. — Ryan Graudin

A man always has two reasons for what he does--a good one, and the real one. — J. P. Morgan

Pioneers get slaughtered, and the settlers prosper. — Daymond John

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world. — Judith Butler