Quotes - Tessa McKnight (tessadmcknight) (The United States) Showing 1-30 of 54

#1

“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

#2

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

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#3

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: inspirational-ship-storms

3741 likes

#4

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

23094 likes

#5

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
― Nicolas Chamfort

tags: philosophy

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#6

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
― Robert Frost

tags: poetry

2493 likes

#7

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

tags: philosophy, poetry

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#8

“You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face”
― Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice

tags: death, haiku, james-bond, philosophy, poetry

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#9

“Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.”
― William Blake

tags: poetry

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#10

“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa, Poems

tags: blossoms, cherry-blossoms, haiku, japan, life, poetry, spring

2370 likes

#11

“Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.”
― Joni Eareckson Tada, The God I Love

tags: faith, god, inspirational, love

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#12

“Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.”
― Joni Eareckson Tada

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#13

“...we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory.”
― Joni Eareckson Tada

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#14

“It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: god, religion

981 likes

#15

“God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.”
― Voltaire

tags: god, religion

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#16

“My soul doth magnify the Lord,
And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior.”
― Anonymous

tags: bible, god, joy, spirit

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#17

“He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)”
― C. S. Lewis

tags: fantasy, god, goodness, safety, security

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#18

“God will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: faith, god, society

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#19

“God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

tags: god, slackers

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#20

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

tags: reading, writing

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#21

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#22

“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
― Marlene Dietrich

tags: attributed-no-source

11861 likes

#23

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship, inspirational

10668 likes

#24