William Nicholson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We read to know that we are not alone.
-- William Nicholson

#Reading #Book #Not Alone
Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.
-- William Nicholson

#Teacher #Brutal
God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.
-- William Nicholson

#Selfish #Suffering #Add
Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them.
-- William Nicholson

#Selfish #People #May
To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which we must be wakened, is the dream that all is well.
-- William Nicholson

#Dream #Pain #Laughter
Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.
-- William Nicholson

#Self #Enemy #Needs
He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.
-- William Nicholson

#Matter #Moments #Accepted
All the fear in the world, and the violence that comes from the fear, and the hatred that comes from the violence, and the lonliness that comes from the hatred. All the unhappiness, all the cruelty, it gathers like clouds in the air, and grows dark and cold and heavy, and falls like grey snow in thick layers over the land. Then the world is muffled and numb, and no one can hear each other or feel each other. Think how sad and lonely that must be.
-- William Nicholson

#Lonely #Fall #Dark
We are the slaves of slaves
-- William Nicholson

#Slave
I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.
-- William Nicholson

#World #Littles
Use your power gently.
-- William Nicholson

#Use
I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.
-- William Nicholson

#Sleep #Flow #Waking
Today begins my walk with you. Where you go, I go. Where you stay, I stay. When you sleep, I will sleep. When you rise, I will rise. I will pass my days within the sound of your voice, and my nights within the reach of your hand. And none shall come between us. - Manth Vow
-- William Nicholson

#Sleep #Night #Hands
If you die, I'll die.' 'But is you live, I'll live.' - Bowman and Kestrel, Firesong
-- William Nicholson

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