"I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken."

-- Lucinda Williams

#Broken Heart Quotes #Song Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I love people, but I love the thought and memory of them just as much.”
“[Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had give her of His work, whatever could distract or deceive or tempt other to seek anything but the Lord Jesus Himself she tried to eliminate.”
“I would not know the thing I sought until I found it. It was both something within and something without myself. Within, it was like the buried memory of a name that will not come to the tongue for utterance.”

Source : Jay Saunders Redding (1992). “A Scholar's Conscience: Selected Writings of J. Saunders Redding, 1942-1977”, p.44, University Press of Kentucky
“We don't have to apologize for who we are”
“If he desired to know about automobiles, he would, without question, study diligently about automobiles. If his wife desired to be a gourmet cook, she'd certainly study the art of cooking, perhaps even attending a cooking class. Yet, it never seems as obvious to him that if he wants to live in love, he must spend at least as much time as the auto mechanic or the gourmet in studying love.”
“God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room when he's on the news. What a monkey.”
“children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.”
“Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation.”

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