Nicked Quotes

“It reminds us also of this: There are those who would devour us; and worse, most of us live by devouring others without ever knowing our sin. We must watch what goes into our mouths and what comes out.”
― M.T. Anderson, Nicked

“Remember: when you are trapped in this life, that often what liberates you, whatever transports you, must drag you by the hair to yank you free.”
― M.T. Anderson, Nicked

“God’s mercy is infinite—an infinite eye—which, seeing all, favors none, and makes no particular distinction in quality between those who eat and those who starve.”
― M.T. Anderson, Nicked

“It is not hard to destroy reputations in a time of unrest.”
― M.T. Anderson, Nicked

“Though Nicholas was born when the empire of Rome was still pagan, we’re told that he was a Christian from birth: as a newborn, when the blood was first washed from him, he stood upright on his own legs in the bath for two hours babbling Christ’s name. As an infant, on holy fast days he refused to suck on either of his mother’s breasts.”
― M.T. Anderson, Nicked

“It is our duty, he thought, to imagine the suffering of all; for God is outside of time, and so should be in weeping for the sorrows of others; as on a church wall, Jonah stands upon the ship and lies within the belly of the whale and dances under his woodbine all at the same instant , standing next to himself. The world is never young and never old.”
― M.T. Anderson, Nicked

“There are those who would devour us; and worse, most of us live by devouring others without ever knowing our sin. We must watch what goes into our mouths and what comes out.”
― M.T. Anderson, Nicked

“This story is what we recall in giving our children miraculous gifts from the saint: We shall not have to sell you. We will keep the world from you as long as we can. Soon enough, you will have to sell yourselves.”
― M.T. Anderson, Nicked