Durkio Quotes & Sayings

The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

During the divorce process, I lived alone and tended to get extremely down on myself. — Buzz Aldrin

Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness. — John Wilkins

What kind of defeatist talk is that?" "The type that's grounded in reality? — Christine S. Feldman

My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well. — Steven Seagal

All the poetry in all the world could not put us back together again — David Jones

The Gold Rush(1925) affirmed Charlie Chaplin's belief that tragedy and comedy are never far apart. — Steven Jay Schneider

What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech. — Vance Havner

Did you have a good time with Win?" Natty asked.
"I'll tell you about it tomorrow." I lowered my voice. "He's still here."
"Annie!" Her eyes grew wide and delighted.
'It's a long story and probably a lot less exciting than the one I suspect you're concocting, Natty. He's only using our couch. — Gabrielle Zevin

If we do the ordinary, God will add an extra to it. — Mark Batterson

Even with her audio interface turned off, it was the deepest silence she'd ever experienced. "It's so quiet here."
"Creepy, isn't it? I don't know how people can stand it."
"I think it's kind of nice."
"Yeah, like a morgue is nice. — Marissa Meyer

The photo had been taken at the opening of JB's fifth, long-delayed show, 'Frog and Toad,' which had been exclusively images of the two of them, but very blurred, and more abstract than JB's previous work. (They hadn't quite known what to think of the series title, though JB had claimed it was affectionate. 'Arnold Lobel?' he had screeched at them when they asked him about it. 'Hello?!' But neither he nor Willem had read Lobel's books as children, and they'd had to go out and buy them to make sense of the reference.) — Hanya Yanagihara

It seems to me, and I am personally convinced, that the Church must never speak from a position of strength. [These are shocking words.] It ought not to be one of the forces influencing this or that state. The Church ought to be, if you will, just as powerless as God himself, which does not coerce but which calls and unveils the beauty and the truth of things without imposing them. As soon as the Church begins to exercise power, it loses its most profound characteristic which is divine love [i.e.] the understanding of those it is called to save and not to smash ... — Anthony Of Sourozh

We only become aware of hot discomfort when others are made awkward for our sakes — Daphne Du Maurier

Or, if you are Penokio, you will feel like: I wud rather not be made of wud. I wud rather be made of skin, so my father Jipeta will stop hitting me with a hamer. — George Saunders