Jermaine Pennant Book Quotes & Sayings

This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it. — Ernest Hemingway,

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. He creates the universe, already foreseeing - or should we say "seeing"? there are no tenses in God - the buzzing cloud of flies about the cross, the flayed back pressed against the uneven stake, the nails driven through the mesial nerves, the repeated incipient suffocation as the body droops, the repeated torture of back and arms as it is time after time, for breath's sake, hitched up. If I may dare the biological image, God is a "host" who deliberately creates His own parasites; causes us to be that we may exploit and "take advantage of" Him. Herein is love. This is the diagram of Love Himself, the inventor of all loves. — C.S. Lewis

God is not going to entertain me, and God is not going to be entertained by me. This fact rules out a lot that passes for worship today. — A.W. Tozer

Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers. — Carol Lee Flinders

I think we, sometimes, try to fill a void with so many other things that we make the wound deeper & prevent it from ever healing properly. — Ingrid Weir

Style is the perfection of a point of view. — Richard Eberhart

Some genealogies claimed to be able to trace the Maclean ancestry even further back, going as far as Julius Caesar, and, in some cases, admittedly more tendentiously, to the ancient Celtic god of the sun. — Alexander McCall Smith

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising. — Kit Williams

I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness. — Olympia Dukakis

Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand! — Walter Scott