Koel Roy Quotes & Sayings

Christ leads us into the wilderness of suffering to engage us there. When he meets us in the wilderness, he is manna, he is water from a broken rock. But he is also the one who wants us to potently feel our lack so that we cling to him. The Apostle Paul expressed as much when he wrote, we are 'sorrowful, yet always rejoicing.' God is the one who leads us into the desert and who makes us feel exposed and frail there. He is the one who turns the wilderness into a womb from which his children are born into gladness. And, like Hagar, we cry, 'You are the God who sees. — Ben Palpant

I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers. — Lois Lowry

Everything must be carried to term before it is born. To let every impression and the germ of every feeling come to completion inside, in the dark, in the unsayable, the unconscious, in what is unattainable to one's own intellect, and to wait with deep humility and patience for the hour when a new clarity is delivered: — Rainer Maria Rilke

Making heroes out of celebrity CEOs is at the heart of the crisis in corporate leadership. — Bill George

If history is any guide, much of what we take for granted simply isn't true. — John Hagelin

Zane lifted one hand to cup Ty's face. "Do you have any idea how brave you are?" he asked, the sounds ragged and perhaps even a little choked. "Tell — Madeleine Urban

Books help me create a better reality. — Daniel Vlcek

It's called faith because it's not knowledge. — Christopher Hitchens

Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute. — Alexander Pope

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her. — Jack Adams

Get arrested. Destroy the property of those who torture animals. Liberate those animals interned in the hellholes our society tolerates. — Jerry Vlasak

[Language allows you] to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to you, without either of you having to perform surgery. — Mark Pagel

Your master will bestow that experience shortly. Your body is not tuned just yet. As a small lamp cannot withstand excessive electrical voltage, so your nerves are unready for the cosmic current. If I gave you the infinite ecstasy right now, you would burn as if every cell were on fire. — Yogananda Paramhansa

A teenage Filipino boy walked up to the car and just stood there, the way people do when disaster strikes. — Miranda July

Business ends up being very dynamic and situational. — Ben Horowitz