Naomi Benaron famous quotes

Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other.
-- Naomi Benaron

#Feet #Evil #Giving

When readers close the covers on Running the Rift, I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.
-- Naomi Benaron

#Running #Stories #Want

I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.
-- Naomi Benaron

#Running #Thinking #Discipline

I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
-- Naomi Benaron

#Wings #Airports #Saws

Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world.
-- Naomi Benaron

#Beautiful #World

Wherever God spends the day, He comes home to sleep in Rwanda.
-- Naomi Benaron

#Sleep #Home #Coming Home

I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
-- Naomi Benaron

#Mother #Holocaust #Guilt

I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men.

What are you doing?" "I'm going to enjoy a long overdue make-out session with my girl. That's what I'm doing." I explained, stepping into the room and closing the door behind me with one shove of my foot.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.

Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.

It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.

I love the saliheen (pious people) even though I’m not one of them, and I hate the taliheen (evil people) even though I (may be) worse than them.

I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again. When I see an act of evil I don't accomodate, I don't accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere. I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.

There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.

The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is Madhusüdana because He killed the demon of the name Madhu; His name is Govinda because He gives pleasure to the cows and to the senses