Grace Ogot famous quotes

When you're frightened don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give your back your courage.
-- Grace Ogot

#Giving #Fearless #Frightened

Whenever you want to see me, always look at the sunset; I will be there.
-- Grace Ogot

#Death #Sunset #Looks

I love writing for myself. I read them [my stories], I cry over them sometimes.
-- Grace Ogot

#Writing #Stories #Sometimes

Death knocks at your door, and before you can tell him to come in, he is in the house with you.
-- Grace Ogot

#Death #Doors #House

The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.  God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!

God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

I am a hot-blooded fire and I am fearless.

Men hid behind religion to keep others from seeing how frightened they were, how inept.

I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

I don't get in a position to be frightened. I don't do anything dangerous, and I always pay my bills.

Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.