Rudyard Kipling Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone's Christmas.
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Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?
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Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.
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I liked you better when you were this timid little kid. What happened?” “I started living with you guys.” “Oh, right.
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What I saw was more than I could stand. The noise I heard had been made by Little Ann. All her life she had slept by Old Dan's side. And although he was dead, she had left the doghouse, had come back to the porch, and snuggled up by his side.
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Hip is the knowledge and Hop is the movement.
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Misfits need a place to get away, too. All that trying to fit in is exhausting.
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Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
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Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played the organ.
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I think the message of peace is for everyone.
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What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.
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Successful families try to work together toward solutions instead of resorting to criticism and contention.
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I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.
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Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.
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When I was growing up, we learned our history almost as lives of the saints. And it came as a shock, "Oh, Jefferson had slaves?" It always comes as a shock to us that elevation to the White House didn't somehow cleanse them of all their deep character flaws.
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If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.
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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.
