"Until all students are faced by the tragedies, the contradictions and the stark questions of life, they cannot understand the need for redemption or God's redemptive action."

-- Reuel Howe

#Tragedy Quotes #Needs Quotes #Redemption Quotes

“A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.”

Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.288, Macmillan
“The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.”
“I don't believe in religious tests, and I don't believe my religion is all that important to the people I represent. And I think there's too much religion in politics.”

Source : Source: www.patheos.com
“The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.”
“You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.”
“It is quite normal to fear what one most desires. We desire to transcend the Story of the World that has come to enslave us, that indeed is killing the planet. We fear what the end of that story will bring: the demise of much that is familiar.Fear it or not, it is happening already.”
“I've always been a singer-songwriter - it started off with me and the guitar, just writing songs, they were very simple. When I got in the studio it took me probably three years to get where I am now - being open to experimenting with new songs, being comfortable with where the songs were headed. I'm happy with where they are because they feel very genuine and authentically who I am.”
“I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but not poems.”

Source : "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

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