Walter Wangerin Quotes

It is not insignificant that my first apprehension of the love of God was granted in an experience with my father. Nor is it generally uncommon that God is apprehended in experience. Nor, in fact, can the divine and human meeting happen any other way. God is not a God of the pulpit, though the pulpit proclaim him. He is a God in and of the histories of humankind. What is significant is that I should have to say so.

Walter Wangerin

Quotes to Explore

Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.

Adam Grant
- Values
- Emotions
- Step
The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.

D. J. MacHale
- People
- Writing
- Real
I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

Wendell Berry
- Heart
- Night
- Man
The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.

Ophelia Lovibond
- People
- Romantic
- Surprise
I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.

Orhan Pamuk
- People
- Writing
- Politics
It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.

Zhou Xun
- Easy
- Chinese
- Films