KL B > KL's Quotes

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Her brain might know this was a new day and a new time, but her heart had no idea. It sill loved.”
― K. L. Burrell, Hidden Battles

“That was just like a demon. Tempt mankind with their weaknesses, play them for fools, then condemn them and spread guilt like a plague...”
― K. L. Burrell

“Was it possible to have an apartment sprayed for evil spirits like one would for bugs, or set up traps like for those big, city rats?”
― K. L. Burrell, Hidden Battles

“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
― Rick Moody

“When a good man suffers … perhaps it makes his roots reach deeper for the water?”
― Bodie Thoene, When Jesus Wept

“Though the growing may be difficult, God will be glorified at the end of every righteous man’s story.”
― Bodie Thoene, When Jesus Wept

“The problem with wearing a dress is that it clashes with a sword.”
― Chuck Black, Kingdom's Hope

“If you begin to rely upon yourself and become arrogant in your skill, that is the day you will fall.”
― Chuck Black, Kingdom's Dawn

“The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was the end of the story, we would have no hope. But the cross isn't the end. Jesus didn't escape from death; he conquered it and opened the way to heaven for all who will dare to believe. The truth of this moment, if we let it sweep over us, is stunning. It means Jesus really is who he claimed to be, we are really as lost as he said we are, and he really is the only way for us to intimately and spiritually connect with God again.”
― Steven James, Story: Recapture the Mystery

“Don't be fooled by strength you can see," he said at last. "Yahweh often hides His power in the simple things, the weak things, and so His strength seems foolish in man's eyes.”
― Lynn Austin, Gods and Kings