Sylvia Engdahl famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Must a man then live as his fellows live, and never reach beyond?" â€”Georyn
-- Sylvia Engdahl

#Men
The human mind is incredible. It can do nothing without belief, yet practically anything with it. â€”Elana's father
-- Sylvia Engdahl

#Father #Mind #Belief
People who love each other can no more keep from communicating than from breathing. â€”Elana
-- Sylvia Engdahl

#Breathing #People #Communicate
What is it, I wonder, that makes two people suddenly become important to each other? So important that everything else around them just fades away?
-- Sylvia Engdahl

#Two #People #Important

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
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.
This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.
God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
No one man is superior to the game.
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.
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

Sylvia Engdahl famous quotes

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