N. K. Jemisin Quotes
Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?
Quotes to Explore
-
It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?
-
At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.
-
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
-
I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
-
We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.
-
It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?
-
Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
-
We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.
-
Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
-
God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.
-
God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
-
It's hard to conceive of someone who could work for at least a few hours each day for months and years on the same story without it being close enough to their life experience to fuel their commitment.
-
'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.
-
Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.
-
In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
-
I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.
-
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
-
Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.
-
I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.
-
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
-
My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.
-
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
-
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride.
-
Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?
