Ultimate Prizes Quotes

“Life's not about the day when you win the prizes - it's about all the days in between. p 255”
― Susan Howatch, Ultimate Prizes

“My first recommendation...will be that you should have a holiday. You are worn out by all your unhappiness.”
― Susan Howatch, Ultimate Prizes

“Then I saw that all I really wanted was a room of my own lined with books, congenial work in pleasant surroundings, and a reasonable amount of civilized conversation with intelligent people.”
― Susan Howatch, Ultimate Prizes

“If you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the apparent truth divides into two opposing truths, and then you have to try to reach beyond them to grasp the ultimate truth, their synthesis.”
― Susan Howatch, Ultimate Prizes

“In your distress you’re making so much noise that you wouldn’t hear a communication from God even if He were transformed into an anthropomorphic deity who could thunder instructions to you in impeccable BBC English. The way forward at this moment, I assure you, is not to thrash around making a noise. What you have to do is to listen—to listen to the silence and be calm.”
― Susan Howatch, Ultimate Prizes

“I vomited neatly into the corner basin. That made me feel better, and as I sluiced away the mess I made a new resolution to behave in an orderly Christian fashion.”
― Susan Howatch, Ultimate Prizes

“It might be impossible to make sense of life: life was not worth living until the attempt to do so had been made.” CHARLES E. RAVEN”
― Susan Howatch, Ultimate Prizes

“I had to make myself presentable. Doggedly I dosed myself with Alka-Seltzer.”
― Susan Howatch, Ultimate Prizes

“At last it occurred to me that I could not continue to sit at my desk, drink whisky and shudder at the thought of the Fordites.”
― Susan Howatch, Ultimate Prizes

“...never think God doesn't listen when you tell Him what you want.”
― Susan Howatch, Ultimate Prizes

“The gifts of the Spirit can be recognized by their fruits.”
― Susan Howatch, Ultimate Prizes