Lendll Quotes & Sayings

If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity, as one of the trials and tribulations of life. We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering . — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency. — Joanna Scott

if anybody feels unworthy to enter heaven,
well then at least let heaven enter his soul. — Toba Beta

Devouring books came as naturally to us as breathing. — Haruki Murakami

It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer. You can't live your life waiting for an answer. — Sophie Kinsella

The important thing
is to pull yourself up by your own hair
to turn yourself inside out
and see the whole world with fresh eyes. — Peter Weiss

We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away. — Paul Simon

Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well. — Thomas Keating

I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing. — Rowan Atkinson

There's only so much you can say about celebrity, obviously. — Chelsea Handler