Amanda Geaney > Amanda's Quotes

“How about this—let’s not let our past determine whether God loves us or not. He does. And we’ll never get it right without him.”
― Susan May Warren, Wild Montana Skies

“Nobody can imagine how nothing could turn into something. Nobody can get an inch nearer to it by explaining how something could turn into something else. It is really far more logical to start by saying ‘In the beginning God created heaven and earth’ even if you only mean ‘In the beginning some unthinkable power began some unthinkable process.’ For God is by its nature a name of mystery, and nobody ever supposed that man could imagine how a world was created any more than he could create one. But evolution really is mistaken for explanation. It has the fatal quality of leaving on many minds the impression that they do understand it and everything else; just as many of them live under a sort of illusion that they have read the Origin of Species.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

“Saving faith may be defined as a certain conviction, wrought in the heart by the Holy Spirit, as to the truth of the gospel, and a hearty reliance (trust) on the promises of God in Christ.”
― Louis Berkhof, Systematic Theology

“How marvelous that two enemy children, wild branches by any measure, could—like my father had said—become one with the sons of Avraham.”
― Connilyn Cossette, To Dwell Among Cedars

“I do not mean to insinuate that your reasons for such self-sacrifice are anything but honorable, only that you do not allow yourself to relax and enjoy what you have, because you are working so hard to earn something you’ve already been given.”
― Connilyn Cossette, To Dwell Among Cedars

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

“It is an inexpressible grief,” Warfield wrote, to see the church “spending its energies in a vain attempt to lower its testimony to suit the ever changing sentiment of the world around it.”
― Fred G. Zaspel, The Theology of B. B. Warfield (Foreword by Sinclair B. Ferguson): A Systematic Summary

“I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
― Proust-M

“He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.”
― Julian Barnes, A Life with Books

“Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
― Angela Carter

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
― Francois Mauriac

“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

“You're never alone when you're reading a book.”
― Susan Wiggs

“Among the bound pages - I am set free.”
― Crystal Decker

“Books matter because kids matter and books make our kids better than we are.”
― Kwame Alexander

“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
― Jessamyn West

“I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.”
― Tahereh Mafi

“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”
― Harold Bloom

“I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.”
― Wislawa Szymborska, Nonrequired Reading