Deborah Keenan famous quotes

my children's faces are private candles i sometimes worship at ...
-- Deborah Keenan

#Children #Faces #Worship

My son called to me that God was inside his red fire engine. He wanted to show me. I did move as fast as I could, spilling like water through the kitchen door into a summer day, but God had left by the time I got there. My son smiled, told me I'd missed him by seconds.
-- Deborah Keenan

#Summer #Moving #Son

The longing to be holy makes us weep, and we trust tears since they are made of water and come from our body, a double blessing.
-- Deborah Keenan

#Blessing #Water #Tears

In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth.
-- Deborah Keenan

This path, this road that is one perfect straight line even if it goes around the world through heat and fog and rain and snow and it's my life I keep thinking. It's my life.
-- Deborah Keenan

#Rain #Thinking #Fog

The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to explain table manners or road safety or gardening, only sex. Anyway, it was bad Darwinism. Taking the example of a monkey and applying it to yourself misses the point that animal behaviour is made for the benefit of the species, not as an excuse for the individual. Being incapable of sustaining a stable pair and supporting children is really not in the interests of our species. Neither is it really in the best interests of the philanderer.

I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the result of something else. There is value in just being oneself, it is not because of something one does or doesn't do. It is there in the beginning, when we are children, but slowly it gets lost.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

It looks better when you do your own stunts, because seeing somebody's face when they're doing them is fun for the audience.

True worship, worship that is pleasing to God, radiates throughout a person's entire life.

If you will not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him one day a week.

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon.