Beth > Beth's Quotes

“if we will listen carefully to the Bible, it will proclaim to us the glory of God. If we do not hear this, the problem is with us, not the Bible.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive

“I am a tiny seashell
that has secretly drifted ashore
and carries the sound of the ocean
surging through its body.”
― Edward Hirsch

“You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“It is impossible to be a follower of Christ while denying, disregarding, discrediting, and disbelieving the words of Christ.”
― David Platt, A Compassionate Call to Counter Culture in a World of Poverty, Same-Sex Marriage, Racism, Sex Slavery, Immigration, Abortion, Persecution, Orphans and Pornography

“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
why.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“Moreover, in removing race and racism from the discussion altogether, we’re paving the way for us as one race to call racism what it actually is: sin borne in a heart of pride and prejudice.”
― David Platt, A Compassionate Call to Counter Culture in a World of Poverty, Same-Sex Marriage, Racism, Sex Slavery, Immigration, Abortion, Persecution, Orphans and Pornography

“She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
― Joy Williams

“For the greatest way to achieve social and cultural transformation is not by focusing on social and cultural transformation, but by giving our lives to gospel proclamation—to telling others the good news of all God has done in Christ and calling them to follow him.”
― David Platt, A Compassionate Call to Counter Culture in a World of Poverty, Same-Sex Marriage, Racism, Sex Slavery, Immigration, Abortion, Persecution, Orphans and Pornography

“My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
― Dante Alighieri

“All the promises of God are Yes and Amen in Christ (2 Cor. 1:20). And if we repent of our sins and believe in Christ, all the promised blessings—forgiveness, cleansing, redemption, eternal life—become our promises, too (Acts 2:37–40; 16:30–31; Eph. 1:3–10; 2:1–10).”
― Kevin DeYoung, What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality?

“She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
― Henry James

“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
― Richard Wright

“He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
― James Burke

“Courage, dear heart.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“Faith is an instrument – a channel for receiving God’s grace, his unmerited favor towards sinners. Ephesians 2:8 teaches, ‘For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God’. This is why the catechism calls faith a ‘saving grace’.”
― Ken Golden, Presbytopia: What it means to be Presbyterian

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac