Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

4391 Novelist Quotes

You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.

Survive Grow Strong Own
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.
Listen Life Moments
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Whether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.

Whether God Preserve
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.

Faith Nothing Guide Grasps
  Favorite Make wallpaper
... in the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all
Long run Joy Finally
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough

Lord Believe Unbelief God
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all

Story Measure Us all
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life...

Listen Life Happening Journey
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary

Extraordinary Way Ordinary
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The life that touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

Life Touch Good Life
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.
Sin Grace Tragedy Comedy.
  Favorite Make wallpaper

He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.

Carve Place Grace Born
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is within the bonds of marriage that I, for one, found a greater freedom to be and to become and to share myself that I can imagine ever having found in any other kind of relationship.

Marriage Bond Greater Found
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed

Words Deep Hate
  Favorite Make wallpaper
The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around
Past Place Present Around
  Favorite Make wallpaper

There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about any more than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks or bring about your own birth.

Deserve Taste Raspberries Cream
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment

Extraordinary Happen Match Moment
  Favorite Make wallpaper

What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.

Found Death Life Scarcely
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom,' the good thief said from his cross. (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words in all of Scripture, no prayer we can pray so well

Jesus Remember Kingdom Cross
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Jesus didn't come to merely speak words that were true, He is the Word that makes us true.
Jesus Speak True
  Favorite Make wallpaper

God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.

God Unending greatness Possible
  Favorite Make wallpaper

There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the three.

Poet Lunatic Lover Religious
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God's presence.

Objective Proof God Existence
  Favorite Make wallpaper

What keeps the wild hope of Christmas alive year after year in a world notorious for dashing all hopes is the haunting dream that the child who was born that day may yet be born again even in us.

Wild Hope Christmas World
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.
Theology Fiction Autobiographical
  Favorite Make wallpaper

To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.

Remember Past Today Grace
  Favorite Make wallpaper

In other words to live Eternal Life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ is with him, and with each other as Christ is with us

Word Eternal Final sense Life
  Favorite Make wallpaper
If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray, it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths.
People Pray Darkness Lot
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Love Matter Memory More
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

Visible Words Pages Blank
  Favorite Make wallpaper
I confess, I do not believe in time.
Believe Confess Time
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Sunrise Death Even Great
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

Style Prose Fancy Count
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Ideas Book Essence Great
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Rocks Cradle Light Sense
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

Surface Fully Home Like
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

African Dreams Genius Snow
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Life Delight Enjoy Order
  Favorite Make wallpaper
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
Wave Explain Sea Whole
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

More Perilous Revelation Revolution
  Favorite Make wallpaper

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

Literature Only School Talent
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Passions Man Butterflies Known
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

Vast Obscure Series Existence
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Poet Precision Scientist Writer
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

Involves Irrational Mysteries Perceived
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

Associated Once Past Smell
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

Write Speak Author Child
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Work Art Society Only
  Favorite Make wallpaper

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

Safe Magic Trash Power
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

Detail Hard Submit Exceed
  Favorite Make wallpaper