Kundera Life Is Elsewhere Quotes & Sayings

We are all, as Robert Robinson wrote in his well-known hymn "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing," "prone to wander ... prone to leave the God I love." We are prone to wander, but God is prone to pursue. And He's faster. — Preston Sprinkle

But who then was he? What could his own self really consist of? He bent over that self in order to peer into it, but all he could find was the reflection of himself bending over himself to peer into that self ... Milan Kundera, Life is Elsewhere — Milan Kundera

Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker. — Antonio Porchia

The kingdom of God dawns in trailer parks and refugee camps. That shouldn't surprise us. The kingdom came to us not from a boardroom or a literary guild, but from a feeding trough and an execution stake. — Russell D. Moore

I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought. — Lewis Thomas

When you leave this world, will you be known as one who accumulated treasures on earth that you couldn't keep? Or will you be recognized as one who invested treasures in heaven that you couldn't lose? — Randy Alcorn

My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly. — Philip E. Berger

But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there. — Richard Thompson