"An author departs; he does not die."

-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Writing Quotes #Doe Quotes

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.”
“I have always disliked the morning, it is too responsible a time, with the daylight demanding that it be 'faced' and (usually when I wake for I wake late) with the sun already up and in charge of the world, with little hope of anyone usurping or challenging its authority. A shot of light in the face of a poor waking human being and another slave limps wounded into the light-occupied territory.”

Source : Janet Frame (1972). “Daughter Buffalo”
“Christianity...made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses, opposition to science, hatred of liberty, spiritual bondage, the life without love or laughter.”
“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”

Source : Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.129, Penguin
“I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their friends are called to those mansions... Nor has the Church's ardent "desire to depart, and be with Christ," ever cured it of the singular habit of putting on mourning for every person summoned to such departure.”
“He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.”
“The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.”
“The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats, and you will get all they have.”

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