Salvation on Sand Mountain Quotes

“Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there.”
― Dennis Covington, Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

“To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.”
― Dennis Covington, Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

“All I know is that I am excessively calculating, especially when I appear not to be.”
― Dennis Covington, Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

“There are moments when you stand on the brink of a new experience and understand that you have no choice about it. Either you walk into the experience or you turn away from it, but you know that no matter what you choose, you will have altered your life in a permanent way. Either way, there will be consequences.”
― Dennis Covington, Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

“Mystery, I'd read somewhere, is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.”
― Dennis Covington, Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

“Endings are the most important part of stories. They grow inevitably from the stories themselves.”
― Dennis Covington, Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

“Feeling after God is dangerous business.
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― Dennis Covington, Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

“My uncle's death confirmed a suspicion of mine that madness and religion were a hair's breadth away.”
― Dennis Covington, Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

“I had grown up in the 1950s, with radio and television and Reader's Digest, and I had assumed that everyone around us was pretty much alike.”
― Dennis Covington, Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

“Mystery, I’d read somewhere, is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.”
― Dennis Covington, Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

“Let me tell you, the bite of the serpent is nothing compared to the bite of your fellow man.”
― Dennis Covington, Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia