Longenecker Auctioneer Quotes & Sayings

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

I look for the moment(s) in the story where the writer risked abandoning the glory of the self in favor of the possible relationship with an other. I don't ever let the market tell me what a memoir is. The first best memoir I ever read was Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. — Lidia Yuknavitch

Instead of fearing what might happen if I failed, I should be excited about what could happen if I succeeded! — Deborah Smith

Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul, in time of prosperity, scatters its affections, and looses itself in the creature; but there is a uniting power in sanctified afflictions, by which a believer, (as in rain a hen collects her brood) gathers his best affections unto his Father and his God. — Richard Sibbes

You make PEACE with your past by owning your PIECE of the past. — Andy Stanley