Quotes of: New-testament Keyword

Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

... there are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other.

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

It's six o'clock; my drink is at the three-quarter mark - three-quarters down not three-quarters up - and the night begins. ("New York Blues")

Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories

The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others' suffering and to be touched by it.

The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

It is unbelievable the amount of hate the human body can sustain before it begins to break.

The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.

The New York Trilogy

Facebook is the perfect place to try on different identities until she finds one that sticks.

The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s there, he’s not really there.

The New York Trilogy

The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are made.

The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg

And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

A New Path to the Waterfall

Reagan understood an important distinction that (Lyndon) Johnson never grasped: being in control and being successful aren't always the same thing.

Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America

For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.

The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism

He is the light in my life and the rock beneath my feet. (Referring to the Lord Jesus)

Living by Faith: Beginning Your Walk as a New Believer

Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.

The Lords and the New Creatures

It is wrong to assume that art needs the spectator in order to be. The film runs on without any eyes. The spectator cannot exist without it. It insures his existence.

The Lords and the New Creatures

We are content with the 'given' in sensation's quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.

The Lords and the New Creatures

Tokyo is a very safe city. At night it becomes quiet the way New York never does.

Little Adventures in Tokyo: 39 Thrills for the Urban Explorer

The Western church needs to regain its confidence in the role of outsiders, relocators who come in humility and grace to learn first and then to offer a different perspective.

Living Mission: The Vision and Voices of New Friars

But Jocelyn Morgenstern was not the kind of woman who wept, not the kind of woman who broke, or Valentine would have broken her long since.

The Last Stand of the New York Institute

The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.

Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

It's like a fairy tale. . . on crack!

The Love of Three Oranges: A Play for the Theatre That Takes the Commedia Dell'arte of Carlo Gozzi and Updates It for the New Millennium