Guto Harri Quotes & Sayings

Optimism hopes for the best without any guarantee of its arriving and is often no more than whistling in the dark. Christian hope, by contrast, is faith looking ahead to the fulfillment of the promises of God, as when the Anglican burial service inters the corpse 'in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ.' Optimism is a wish without warrant; Christian hope is a certainty, guaranteed by God himself. Optimism reflects ignorance as to whether good things will ever actually come. Christian hope expresses knowledge that every day of his life, and every moment beyond it, the believer can say with truth, on the basis of God's own commitment, that the best is yet to come. — J.I. Packer

Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt? — Plato

The ungrown glories of his beamy hair. — Joseph Addison

The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it. — Mark Rothko

There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that I'm just really excited about. There seems to be a big gap between the generation above and us; it seems to be quite radically different in terms of form and approach. — Eleanor Catton

As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are
the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in
much poison. — Ovid

We are two broken people, whose pieces magically fit together to make something beautiful and new. — Tamsyn Bester

Our souls are always looking for love, and hearts wait to treasure it. — Munia Khan

Their first actual kiss was a one-celled organism which, after they had been standing on the stairway kissing for some time, evolved into something rather grander
a bird of paradise, for example. — Laurie Colwin

Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one. — Trent Zelazny