Stonnington Quotes & Sayings

There is an integrity to story that comes from a real life lived in it. A story is clearly illumined from being raised up in it. In — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

New Testament gospels are traditionally accorded a cultural sanctity and lofty regard completely out of line with their literary worth. — Thomas Daniel Nehrer

My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona. — Eric Cantona

Such a nation (living godly) will dwell in refuge. Meaning secured, protected, safe etc. — Sunday Adelaja

No one will ever go to Hell who has put his trust in Jesus Christ, but many will end up in torment who have trusted their own righteousness and reformation. — Curtis Hutson

Desire I think has less to do with possession than with participation, the will to involve oneself in the body of the world, in the principle of things expressing itself in splendid specificity, a handful of images: a lover's irreplaceable body, the roil and shimmer of the sea overshot with sunlight, a handful of cherries, the texture and weight of a word. The word that seems most apt is partake ... We can say we partake of something but we may just as accurately say we take part in something' we are implicated in another being, which is always the beginning of wisdom, isn't it- that involvement which enlarges us, which engages the heart, which takes out of the routine limitations of self? — Mark Doty

I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did. — Martin Luther

The harvest of the Lord's field is seldom ripened by sunshine only. It must go through its days of wind, rain and storm. — J.C. Ryle

You don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none. — Oscar Wilde

There is something irrational about reading. Before you read a book, you can know immediately whether or not you are going to like it, just as with people, you can tell just from looking at them whether or not you'll be their friend. You smell it, you sniff it, you wonder whether it's worth spending time in its company. The pages of a book have an invisible alchemy that imprints itself on our brain. A book is a living creature. — Jean-Michel Guenassia