Tish Warren Quotes & Sayings

I know Verona as I do my own body. — Lois Leveen

The new life into which we are baptized is lived out in days, hours, and minutes. God is forming us into a new people. And the place of that formation is in the small moments of today. — Tish Harrison Warren

When suffering is sharp and profound, I expect and believe that God will meet me in its midst. But in the struggles of my average day I somehow feel I have a right to be annoyed. — Tish Harrison Warren

Elon Musk with PayPal revolutionized banking. — Peter Diamandis

Afterwards the members of the little war party felt fine. Torturing whites was a splendid way to spend the afternoon. — Larry McMurtry

The word "fine" is the greatest abbreviation and obviously wrong. — Lydia Davis

Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on? — Paul Newman

...small bits of our day are profoundly meaningful
because they are the site of our worship. The crucible of our formation is in the monotony of our daily routines. — Tish Harrison Warren

The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard. — David Gerrold

Worship itself is made up of ordinary stuff. We use plain words. Some of the most the glorious words in Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer are, well, common and plain enough to make you weep - "We have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and we have done those things which we ought not to have done, and there is no health in us." We are baptized in plain water. We consume plain bread and wine. And it all is lifted up by plain people. — Tish Harrison Warren

But nothing happened there now of a nature to provoke a disturbance. There were no complaints to the management or the police, and the dark glory of the upper galleries was a legend in such memories as that of the late Emiel Kroger and the present Pablo Gonzales, and one by one, of course, those memories died out and the legend died out with them. Places like the Joy Rio and the legends about them make one more than usually aware of the short bloom and the long fading out of things. ("The Mysteries of the Joy Rio") — Tennessee Williams

Let me be your ruler, you can call me queen bee. — Lorde

My minty breath - a little foretaste of glory. — Tish Harrison Warren

Flannery O'Connor once told a young friend to "push as hard as the age that pushes against you. — Tish Harrison Warren

Everyone wants a revolution. No one wants to do the dishes." I — Tish Harrison Warren

Teeth.
So needy. — Tish Harrison Warren

If I were a lioness, I would snarl. As it is, I brood. — Tish Harrison Warren

Similarly, when we denigrate our bodies - whether through neglect or staring at our faces and counting up our flaws - we are belittling a sacred site, a worship space more wonderous than the most glorious, ancient cathedral. We are standing before the Grand Canyon or the Sistine Chapel and rolling our eyes. — Tish Harrison Warren

I need rituals that encourage me to embrace what is repetitive, ancient, and quiet. But what I crave is novelty and stimulation. — Tish Harrison Warren

This is a great mystery. My teeth will be in eternity and are eternally good. — Tish Harrison Warren

Tell me, Socrates, have you got a nurse? Why do you ask such a question, I said, when you ought rather to be answering? Because she leaves you to snivel, and never wipes your nose: she has not even taught you to know the shepherd from the sheep. What makes you say that? I replied. — Plato

The Ten Commandments are just as valid today as they were when God gave them. They reflect the moral character of God, and they also provide the foundation of right living with others. — Billy Graham