Disentangled Book Quotes & Sayings

Love is the magician of the universe. It creates everything out of nothing. — Barbara De Angelis

Thus the motivation, energy and drive for holiness are all found in the reality and power of God's grace in Christ. And so if I am to make any progress in sanctification, the place where I must always begin is the gospel of the mercy of God to me in Christ Jesus. — Sinclair B. Ferguson

The challenge lies in knowing how to bring this sort of day to a close. His mind has been wound to a pitch of concentration by the interactions of the office. Now there are only silence and the flashing of the unset clock on the microwave. He feels as if he had been playing a computer game which remorselessly tested his reflexes, only to have its plug suddenly pulled from the wall. He is impatient and restless, but simultaneously exhausted and fragile. He is in no state to engage with anything significant. It is of course impossible to read, for a sincere book would demand not only time, but also a clear emotional lawn around the text in which associations and anxieties could emerge and be disentangled. He will perhaps only ever do one thing well in his life.
For this particular combination of tiredness and nervous energy, the sole workable solution is wine. Office civilisation could not be feasible without the hard take-offs and landings effected by coffee and alcohol. — Alain De Botton

In the eyes of the others we who met them saw ourselves. And there were demons there. — Whitley Strieber

I hope the Church will examine what is good and what is ill, and what good could be achieved by getting the suicidal, self-destructive, possibly carnal, or celibate to move toward this experience of love. — Andrew Solomon

Now, more then ever, we have the ability to make films for almost nothing and that's broken down all barriers of entry. I think it's a new golden age of film-making. With that, there needs to be the ability to recoup investment dollars, people need to make money. — Matthew Lillard

Hef holds the Guinness Book of World Records title for largest scrapbook collection at over 2,000 volumes. — Holly Madison

I can't do it anymore ... The way you consume my mind when we aren't together? I don't have time for it anymore. I've got more important things to think about now than your little weak moments — Colleen Hoover

The first draft is your "vomit onto the keyboard" draft, wherein your task is to simply keep moving and outrun your doubts. — Sean Platt

I can get more out of God by believing Him for one minute than by shouting at Him all night. — Smith Wigglesworth

Do not imagine that the good you intend will balance the evil you perform — Norman Mac Donald

We must see the new Nigeria The Nigeria We Want we must accept personal responsibility to build it — Fela Durotoye

If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem. — William Carlos Williams

If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one. — Roger Ebert

I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics. — Edwin Land

To live is to grow. — Vironika Tugaleva