Quotes for All
People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look at me? They’re stuck on that person I used to be. They can’t see that old life as just a … Read more
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Dickinson
After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everything’s changed….there’s a hole. It’s person-shaped and it follows you everywhere…. For us what was killing was how nothing had changed. We’d been waiting to be transformed, and now here we were, back in our old life. Elizabeth McCracken
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. Eleanor Roosevelt
One day you wake up and you decide you want to be different. You want a different life. You are tired of your old life. This is the truth. You will a change. Frederick Lenz
An imitation of a Frenchman would not make me a Frenchman. I am a German and I would have to be \”reborn\” to be anything but what I am. And so in the Christian life. I must be born anew. That is why Christ took me with Himself down into the grave and brought me … Read more
Man is born with his face turned away from God. When he truly repents, he is turned right round toward God; he leaves his old life. Dwight L. Moody
When a man is not deeply convicted of sin, it is a pretty sure sign that he has not truly repented. Experience has taught me that men who have very slight conviction of sin sooner or later lapse back into their old life. Dwight L. Moody
Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it would have been adultery. Dorothy Parker
The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out… The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity… out of the realm of the finite…into the realm of infinite possibilities. Dietrich Bonhoeffer