Winifred Kirkland famous quotes

Every woman must admit, and every man with as much sense as a woman, that it's very hard to make a home for any man if he's always in it.
-- Winifred Kirkland

#Home #Men

If Christians had ever been brave enough to make Christ alive, nobody would now be saying that Christianity is dead.
-- Winifred Kirkland

#Christian #Brave #Alive

Today the greatest single deterrent to knowledge of Jesus is His familiarity. Because we think we know Him, we pass Him by.
-- Winifred Kirkland

#Jesus #Thinking #Today

Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.

Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.

I dont really take anything from home except some U.S. magazines and books and definitely some U.S. music. There are just certain songs that remind me of home.

I don't do office work at home.

…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….

Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.

Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.