Vihlen Hugo Quotes & Sayings

I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls. — Hugo Vihlen

Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible. — George Orwell

Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul. — Leslie Marmon Silko

It was likely, then that this - -this stumbling walk on a wet night across a ploughed field- - meant death. Death - -the thing one had always heard of (like love), the thing the poets had written about. So this was how it was going to be. But that was not the main point. — C.S. Lewis

All that matters is whether one opts for Christ - not Christian opinions. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When she hears the news that God has chosen her to play a physically and emotionally dangerous role in history, Mary reacts not with confusion or reluctance, but with swift acceptance. To any of her contemporaries who heard about this for the first time, the young woman's acceptance would have seemed surprising, almost shocking. For an unmarried woman in first-century Galilee, a pregnancy of any kind would be frightening news, even if the child were wished-for and the identity of the child's father was not in doubt. — Kate Cooper