David Paul Kirkpatrick > Quotes

“God requires solitude and quiet – this is part of the way He instructs us to pray to Him. We are obligated through our Love to worship Him as He sees fit. This is not the law. This is the language of Love: we love Him in the way He chooses for us to Love Him.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, Breakfast in the temple

“Through science, she could reach anyone at anytime around the world, but no one seemed to know what to say.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“Oh come, ‘though you have broken your promises a hundred times…Come home, stranger and alien, come home to me….Come home, space traveler, lover of leaving for I am here...”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“When I die, never say that I am gone. The sun sets. The moon fades. My body perishes. But my leaving has nothing to do with being gone. I will stay forever with you.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick

“The world is my nation. Humanity is my family. To do good is my spiritual praxis. I often stumble, but past my own divisions, I sometimes glimpse the one in the all.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick

“Be angry. But don't be bitter.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick

“Of all the guile! How can you be objective? You have no perspective! You’re only 16!”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“There is peace in play.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick

“Be patient, child!” said the Music. “But she will forget me.” “Do not worry, child. I am there. I shall not forget.”And she stared out at the planets and gentle stars and the galaxies and became forlorn for she had known a special love.“The Universe is so large, just look at it!” she cried. “Believe.” The Music sang.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“Through all people, the Music of Love would pour, bringing light to the swords that sped through the darkness. And the light of their blades would lead the constellations to their destination.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“I no longer belong to your ways. My religion is love. Every heart is my church.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick

“Never look back unless backwards is your destination.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, the dog

“This dog, who shall be under your care, belongs to the best of humankind’s creation. For man transformed that which he feared into something which could love him. The dog, Theo, is the great witness to the one truth. There is but the one truth. Four words like my tale. The truth is this: Love triumphs over fear.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, the dog

“Because you tred upon my dreams, the world is made of magic things.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick

“What good are we if we can't imagine?”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, the dog

“All the forgotten beauty of his twenty-nine years poured over Theo. The beauty of such memory filled him. He watched as the white cat with the electric-blue eyes turned away. There, in front of the cat, stood the bright bridge, the tie between the immense eternities, of time before birth, of time after death. The ghosts of the yet-to-be-born and the ghosts of the dead both hovered amidst the white-breasted nuthatches poking their pecking beaks into the snow, searching for seed.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, the dog

“The world is my nation. Humanity is my family. To do good is my spiritual praxis.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick

“Dogs were once wolves.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, the dog

“We did it, boy,” she said. Her words pricked his ears. He watched her radiant smile. “Theo is a lover,” she whispered.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, the dog

“Master the dog and you shall master yourself.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, the dog

“Shadow’s heart stopped. While Theo did not observe it with his eyes, he felt the life juice leave the dog’s body. In the final shudder of the death throe, Shadow gave up his ghost.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, the dog

“Since that night you walked through my dreams, the world is full of magic things.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick

“God made the wolf but man made the dog. When we look at a dog, we see the best in ourselves.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick

“All life is sacred! Even the blessed earth you take into your mouth.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, the dog

“Sometimes, it's important to turn off the noise from the outside world. Sometimes, it's critical to stop the banter even within oneself. Intentional solitude and quiet can make us strong for tomorrow.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick

“No, no,” howled Shadow. “Do not keep me here!”
“Do you not love the boy?” said the voice of the sea.
“Love is terrible!” Shadow howled.
“I know,” replied the sea.
“It is full of hurt.”
“It is. But do you not love the boy?”
“I do love the boy!” the dog cried.
“You cannot leave the boy in this storm, not if you truly love him,” she said.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, the dog

“The breeze carried the music into the distant country plains, past the bullet trains, across the majestic cornfields and the Christmas tree farms. The music swept past the Georgia orange trees, the droning honeybees, and the shining seas of the Atlantic. It wafted past the London Pier. Young Britney wanted all of Nod to hear.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“Quiet breathed like some darkening monster at the window of Theo’s mind
He could not say “bad dog.”
He could not say “good boy.”
He could not say anything.
.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, the dog

“It is easy to kill a demon. It is much harder to kill a man.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, the dog

“As a worldling wishes, so the world is formed.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick