Quotes of: Useful-thing Keyword

You know, even I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?

Elizabeth Gilbert

The worst things in life come free to us

Ed Sheeran: +

The thing I've learned is that thinking is not writing.

Uses for Boys

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

Susan B. Anthony

Look, you're either loved or hated. Which is a good thing, as Bette Davis used to say.

Mario Cantone

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

C. S. Lewis

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

Yehuda Amichai

Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

Caprice Bourret

Each of us sees things not as they are but as we are.

Jack Provonsha

The things we love are secretly loving us in return.

Debasish Mridha

Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.

Olga Kurylenko

The most exciting thing for all of us is movies and movie stars.

Kenneth Edmonds

Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.

Eugene Jarecki

Jesus didn't speak of hell so that we could study, debate and write books about it. He gave us these passages so that we would live holy lives. Jesus evidently hates it when we tear into our brothers or sisters with demeaning words, words that fail t...

Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up

What we want is never simple. We move among the things we thought we wanted: a face, a room, an open book and these things bear our names -- now they want us. But what we want appears in dreams, wearing disguises. We fall past, holding out our arms a...

Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems, 1968-1998

And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man –whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imag...

The Republic

Father, be near as we are surrounded by this cloud of deep suffering. Open our eyes to see that you are all things, the light and the darkness, not only those things that seem good in our eyes, but the horrifying unexplainable. Wrap us up inside of t...

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

I leaned forward with my elbows on my knees and her book in my hands. Like a lot of things in my life, I'd just about worn it out, but it was worn out with love, and that's the best kind of worn-out there is. Maybe we're like all those used cars, bro...

Kindness Goes Unpunished

A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only a substitute for love (of God and of other people) like a crutch which is a substitute for a leg. Most of us need the crutch ...

Letters of C. S. Lewis

I had not known before that love is obedience. You want to love, and you can’t, and you hate yourself because you can’t, and all the time love is not some marvelous thing that you feel but some hard thing that you do. And this in a way is easier ...

The Scent of Water

We tend to have a limited concept of spiritual death as saying no only to things we want or covet -- our guilty pleasures and selfish ambitions. But in reality, it means dying inwardly to whatever has control over us. The thing that really controls u...

Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity