Martha Wright > Martha's Quotes

“All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”
― Julian of Norwich

“These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“Tolle, lege: take up and read.”
― St. Augustine, Confessions

“Somewhere, and I can’t find where, I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, “If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?” “No,” said the priest, “not if you did not know.” “Then why,” asked the Eskimo earnestly, “did you tell me?”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.”
― Uma Thurman

“He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“The new pornography is left-wing; and the new
pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too”
― Andrea Dworkin, Pornography: Men Possessing Women

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

“Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed. ”
― Dorothy Day