Retrenchment Cover Quotes & Sayings

I feel lucky that my career so far has included books for adults and books for kids. They're equally important to me, and I hope I get to continue writing both. — Greg Van Eekhout

The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the unaware', 'the unmusical', 'the unattuned. — Tom Wolfe

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets. — Jay Samit

However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The life function of [the local church] is to love the God who created it - to care for others out of obedience to Christ, to heal those who hurt, to take away fear, to restore community, to belong to one another, to proclaim the Good News while living it out. The church is the invisible made visible. — Charles Colson