Fenno House Quotes & Sayings

J.C. Ryle is an evangelical champion ... One of the bravest and best of men. — Charles Spurgeon

Now seeds are just dimes to the man in the store And the dimes are the things that he needs, And I've been to buy them in seasons before But have thought of them merely as seeds; But it flashed through my mind as I took them this time, "You purchased a miracle here for a dime." — Edgar Guest

As it was before, so it was now; I need only be aware of God to live; I need only forget Him, or disbelieve Him, and I died.
What is this animation and dying? I do not live when I lose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live, really live, only when I feel Him and seek Him. "What more do you seek?" exclaimed a voice within me. "This is He. He is that without which one cannot live. To know God and to live is one and the same thing. God is life."
"Live seeking God, and then you will not live without God." And more than ever before, all within me and around me lit up, and the light did not again abandon me. — Leo Tolstoy

If my dad was alive, I wouldn't have gone to boarding school, and I wouldn't have had the success I've had. — Jason Day

What made drugs perpetually so sexy was the opportunity to be other. Years after he'd figured out that pot only made him paranoid and sleepless, he still got hard-ons at the thought of smoking it. Still lusted for that jailbreak. — Jonathan Franzen

My head'll explode if I continue with this escapism. — Jess C. Scott

He who wishes to maintain that the past of mankind no longer has any absolute value in lifemust also be ready to deny his ownlife until the present moment, indeed in advance until the last moment, as worthless. He who realizes that culture is the giving of form will also see that the highest forms that it is given to the human spirit to recognize have always been, psychologically considered, such evasions from the present. Considerations such as these do not at all square with the direction of America's mind. — Johan Huizinga

In a state of anomie, the absence of justice becomes the panacea for justice — Dauglas Dauglas

I was raised in a family where no one had a serious bone in their body and every answer was a riddle, a joke, or a prank. — James Brolin

There is something I want to say but I don't know what it is. — Tarryn Fisher

If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kraken.
[on Twitter, July 17, 2012] — Scott Lynch

So when the devil wants to dance with you, you better say never,
Because the dance with the devil might last you forever. — Immortal Technique

I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad. — Lorrie Moore