Skien Kirke Quotes & Sayings

For some reason, it never crossed any mind in this administration to ask for the money back. — Peter Schuyler

The events of the world can have no separate life from the world. And yet the world itself can have no temporal view of things. It can have no cause to favor certain enterprises over others. The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one. There is no favoring, you see. How could there be? At whose behest? This man did not cease to believe in God. Nor did he come to have some modern view of God. There was God and there was the world. He knew that the world would forget him but that God could not. And yet that was the very thing he wished for. — Cormac McCarthy

I knew even before I had desire that it would be gnarled and knotted, black and hard, a tree that would never bear fruit, a fish that would never jump, a cat that would never meow. All my life, bitterness and regret, bitterness, and regret. "And yet," he said, briefly closing his eyes, "I was able to imagine the softness and sweetness of love, for a time." He rested his head upon his right hand, in a gesture worthy of a classical actor, and everyone in the Teatro Barbarossa heard his breathing. — Mark Helprin

The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them. — Christopher Bollen

In politics, the tripod is the most unstable of all structures. — Frank Herbert

Everyone wants to share what he or she has learned with someone who really cares. — Douglas Coupland

45Not one of the good promises which the LORD had made to the house of Israel failed; all came to pass. — Anonymous

a star, and it's our most important one. That alone should — Nicola Yoon

Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat little because I didn't know what my characters were going to say next. — Adam Johnson

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? (Gal. 4:9) — Francis Chan

Every fiction has its base in fact. — Gayle Forman