Glen Duncan Hope Quotes & Sayings

His face is transformed from gorgeous into just plain breathtaking. — M. Leighton

Catholicism fascinated him, the contortions it put itself through to make ends meet. Father Murray had kept returning to the word 'despair.' There'd been a little (bizarre, Luke thought) linguistic diversion into Latin. Desperare, formed by the 'de' prefex, signifying the removal of or from, and 'sperare,' meaning to hope. The removal of hope. That was despair. The reasoning being that you couldn't live without hope. What Murray hadn't said (but what, along with the story of the suicide ghost, Luke remembered from childhood) was that despair was classified as a sin against the Holy Spirit. That was the perverse beauty of the religion: that your daughter could be raped and murdered and yourself still condemned for giving up hope. — Glen Duncan

Death had to precede resurrection, for there could be no resurrection without it. A secret and unwitnessed death would have left the resurrection without any proof or evidence to support it. Again, why should He die a secret death, when He proclaimed the fact of His rising openly? Why should He drive out evil spirits and heal the man blind from birth and change water into wine, all publicly, in order to convince men that He was the Word, and not also declare publicly that incorruptibility of His mortal body, so that He might Himself be believed to be the Life? — Athanasius Of Alexandria

Heaven's heard us down here, cackling at our piss-takes and chortling at our quips; I've seen the looks, the suspicion that they're missing out on it, this laughing malarkey. But they always turn away, Gabriel to horn practice, Michael to the weights. Truth is they're timid. If there was a safe way down
a fire escape (boom-boom)
there'd be more than a handful of deserters tiptoeing down to my door. Abandon hope all ye who enter here, yes
but get ready for a rart ol' giggle, dearie. — Glen Duncan

The and Love of God (Yahweh) ... Is Greater than any majestic sunset, star and planet he has created & any problem we can ever have! — Timothy Pina

Shall receive a blessing from the LORD and righteousness from the God of his salvation — Sarah Price

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

For Moderators, the first bite tastes the best, and then their pleasure gradually drops, and they might even stop eating before they're finished. For Abstainers, however, the desire for each bite is just as strong as for the first bite - or stronger, so they may want seconds, too. — Gretchen Rubin

Expect nothing and you don't need the courage to hope, nor the strength to withstand disappointment when nothing comes. — Glen Duncan

Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is — Oscar Wilde

We worked very hard to make extensions very simple. — Mitchell Baker

I think the wolves all died when the great forests were cut down. That howling you hear is only the Londoners. — Hilary Mantel

All her words to him are like staying in a hotel, new and curious and tentatively fumbling for switches on the wall, repeatedly turning on different lights that those she wanted to turn on. — Fredrik Backman

You need to take care of the root in order to heal the tree. - Gullah Proverb — Patti Callahan Henry

In my case, I can sincerely say nothing is impossible. — Novak Djokovic

I said we are Ghodratis and there's nothing that Ghodratis like more than a bargain. — Aasif Mandvi

The best way to break free from entitlement eating is to adopt a biblical perspective of life. God never said, "You deserve the good life, and of course you have a right to eat." Instead, He said, "If you want to follow me, you have to be willing to give up everything. — Barb Raveling

Laughter not time destroyed my voice
And put that crack in it,
And when the moon's pot-bellied
I get a laughing fit ... — William Butler Yeats