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Willingly Quotes (page 516)

The article of justification must be sounded in our ears incessantlybecause the frailty of our flesh will not permit us to take hold of itperfectly and to believe it with all our heart. Martin Luther
The feeling of joy came up in me again the way the lyric of a song might remind a man on the edge of insanity that soon he will be insane again and there is a world there more interesting than his own. Norman Mailer
Anyhow, there'll be plenty of jam in heaven, that's one comfort, he said complacently. Perhaps there will...if we want it, she said, But what makes you think so? Why, it's in the catechism, said Davy. Oh, no, there is nothing like that in the catechism, Davy. But I tell you there is, persisted Davy. It was in that question Marilla taught me last Sunday. Why should we love God? It says, Because he makes preserves, and redeems us. Preserves is just a holy way of saying jam. L. M. Montgomery
L. M. Montgomery quote: "Well, all I hope," said Miss Cornelia calmly, "is that when..."
Well, all I hope," said Miss Cornelia calmly, "is that when I'm dead nobody will call me 'our departed sister. L. M. Montgomery
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Only when we eat up this planet will god give us another...."
Only when we eat up this planet will god give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create. Chuck Palahniuk
It is not saying too much; I know what I feel, and how averse are my inclinations to the bare thought of marriage. No one would take me for love; and I will not be regarded in the light of a mere money-speculation. And I do not want a stranger--unsympathizing, alien, different from me. I want my kindred--those with whom I have full fellow-feeling. Charlotte Bronte
William Shakespeare quote: "I will do anything ... ere I'll be married to a sponge."
I will do anything ... ere I'll be married to a sponge. William Shakespeare
Lao Tzu quote: "Water is fluid, soft & yielding but water will wear away rock,..."
Water is fluid, soft & yielding but water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield ... what is soft is strong. Lao Tzu
You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life John Irving
….but at the same time, they got a miracle. It wasn’t the kind that comes on a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day float. And it wasn’t the one that they wanted, where God would reach down from the sky and touch their girl with a magic wand and restore her to perfect health. Maybe that will still happen-who knows? I wouldn’t put anything past God, because he or she is one crafty mother. Still, they did get a miracle, one of those dusty little red-wagon miracles, and they understand this. Anne Lamott
Lewis Carroll quote: "If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can..."
If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much! Lewis Carroll
He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you. Friedrich Nietzsche
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "Books inviting us to read, on the bookshelves stand. Piers for..."
Books inviting us to read, on the bookshelves stand. Piers for bridges that will lead, into Fairyland Rainer Maria Rilke
Many great religions, Pagan and Christian, have insisted on wine. Only one, I think, has insisted on Soap. You will find it in the New Testament attributed to the Pharisees. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books." You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man. Malcolm X

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