Giver In The Bible Quotes & Sayings

Bring new eyes to a world even new lenses and presto, new world. — John Steinbeck

The best cookies of all in the world are the ones my daughter Sally makes. They come out all uniform with nice little air holes. — Willard Scott

God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver ... From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. No one who is seriously wronged can "just forgive" the perpetrator ... But when you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly. — Timothy Keller

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Desperation is a great giver of clarity: Bartimaeus needed no time to decide what to do next. "Jesus! Son of David!" he shouted. "Have mercy on me!" (Mark 10:47). The crowd turned to him in disgust. "Shut your mouth, son of filth!" But Bartimaeus knew what it meant to be despised. He also knew that the chance of a lifetime was literally passing him by, so he called to the Savior all the louder. (From: Bartimaeus) — Sherri Gragg

It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer. — Charles De Lint

The only way to get over the last fall is to jump back on the horse and keep riding. — Eoin Dempsey

If you don't believe it yourself your team darn sure won't. — Rex Ryan

There are silences made just for us. — Roberto Bolano

Novelists don't have answers and ones that do I'm not sure you should trust. — David Mitchell

The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible. — Ann Douglas

My pain's not ashamed to repeat itself — Marilyn Manson

What book(s) changed your life and why? I could probably list books for days, so I'll just list a few favorites: The Giver by Lois Lowry, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, the Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate, 1984 by George Orwell, the Bible, Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, and Juliet by Andras Visky (which is a play, but I think it still counts). — Veronica Roth