Sejati Walk Quotes & Sayings

When God creates Eve, he calls her an ezer kenegdo. 'It is not good for the man to be alone, I shall make him [an ezer kenegdo]' (Gen. 2:18 Alter). Hebrew scholar Robert Alter, who has spent years translating the book of Genesis, says that this phrase is 'notoriously difficult to translate.' The various attempts we have in English are "helper" or "companion" or the notorious "help meet." Why are these translations so incredibly wimpy, boring, flat ... disappointing? What is a help meet, anyway? What little girl dances through the house singing "One day I shall be a help meet?" Companion? A dog can be a companion. Helper? Sounds like Hamburger Helper. Alter is getting close when he translates it "sustainer beside him"
The word ezer is used only twenty other places in the entire Old Testament. And in every other instance the person being described is God himself, when you need him to come through for you desperately. — Stasi Eldredge

Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings. — Ann Leckie

She couldn't help thinking that something was wrong with a person had more shoes than books in their home. — Victoria Connelly

The person of superior integrity
does not insist upon his integrity.
For this reason, he has integrity.
The person of inferior integrity
never loses sight of his integrity;
For this reason, he lacks integrity. — Lao-Tzu

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laugher and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt? — Edna Ferber

You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out. — Gary Hopkins

I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking. — Portia De Rossi

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Speaking is the one trait in which woman is superior to man. Consider what happens when a couple argues. The man tries to talk to the woman. The stupid fool - he can never win. — Harry Harlow

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination. — Carlos Fuentes

You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so.
I wonder whether they have ended because they were not really societies at all. — Idries Shah

It is strange that the mind will forget so much, and yet hold a picture of flowers that have been dead for thirty years or more ... — Richard Llewellyn

You goin' to get your deer?" I am asked by every man I meet - and they all wait for an answer. My deer-slaying program is a matter of considerable local concern, much to my surprise. It is plain that I now reside in a friendly community of killers, and that until I open fire myself they cannot call me brother. — E.B. White