Haukeligrend Quotes & Sayings

We have to realize that we cannot earn or win anything from God through our own efforts. We must either receive it as a gift or do without it. The greatest spiritual blessing we receive is when we come to the knowledge that we are destitute. Until we get there, our Lord is powerless. He can do nothing for us as long as we think we are sufficient in and of ourselves. We must enter into His kingdom through the door of destitution. — Oswald Chambers

I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter, the craft is always there talking to you in the back of your head ... that tells you when it's time to go to the chorus, when it's time to rhyme. Real basic craft ... it's second nature. — Janis Ian

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. — Thomas Aquinas

I find that there are two kinds of books; the ones that make you want to read more and those that make you want to write more. — Harmann Pitts

Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. — Jackie Collins

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. — Edgar Fiedler

IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound ... properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position. — Ambrose Bierce

Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast. — Benjamin Franklin

The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be. — Abraham Lincoln

There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either. — Phillip Noyce

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. — Bernard Baruch