"If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable."

-- Jo Walton

#Ineffable Quotes

“Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.”

Source : Beatrix Potter, Judy Taylor (2012). “Beatrix Potter's Letters”, p.219, Penguin UK
“For me, the massiveness of what I don't know is one way I experience God. It creates in me a feeling of humility and a sense of gratitude.”
“There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own.”
“Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.”
“In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.”
“Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.”
“Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.”
“Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good bishop's sake Get up and let us see What beauty it shall be That Fortune us assigns.”

You may also like: