Mar Elias Quotes & Sayings

That boy ought to sleep with a rubber band around his head to train his ears not to stick out. I had a beau once who did that and it improved him immensely. — L.M. Montgomery

But whenever the church fails to mediate God's counterintuitive delight in broken people, the pain of sin will only be magnified until it suffocates our souls. Good deeds and spiritual lingo can't heal a human heart suffocated by evil. Only grace can. Rich, embodied, earthy charis. — Preston Sprinkle

Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of St. Francis of Assisi. Thus we shall arrive that ethics is reverence for all life. This is the ethic of love widened universally. It is the ethic of Jesus now recognized as a necessity of thought ... Only a universal ethic which embraces every living creature can put us in touch with the universe and the will which is there manifest ... — Albert Schweitzer

For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash. — Fady Joudah

My father owned a small piece of land. He carried it with him wherever he went. — Woody Allen

I can feel his breaths against my palm, his body expanding and contracting, and I know he's strong, steady, unstoppable. — Veronica Roth

Not all stories translate well when read out loud. — Lynn Cohen

Non numerantur sed ponderantur
(They are not counted but weighed) — Paul Hoffman