Lines Quotes - Page 43

I should just stay composed and run to the finish line.

In the person of Christ God beholds a holiness which abides His closest scrutiny, yea, which rejoices and satisfies His heart; and whatever Christ is before God, He is for His people.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.

A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.

Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there He can renew us.

It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.

Dreams grow holy put in action.

There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth.

To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.

No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life.

[In acting] I like the fight scenes because you don't have to remember lines.

She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.

Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.

The talkers and writers resent being left on the sidelines by the doers.

[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.

There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you.

...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.

The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm (which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you. It is like the hydrostatic paradox, one drop of water can balance the universe.

There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

Maybe Gary (Neville) deserves to be chased up a tunnel every now and then - there would be a queue for him, probably. But you have to draw a line eventually.

I'm not single, I'm busy. That's my line.

Jesus . . . wants us to see that the neighbor next door or the people sitting next to us on a plane or in a classroom are not interruptions to our schedule. They are there by divine appointment. Jesus wants us to see their needs, their loneliness, their longings, and he wants to give us the courage to reach out to them.

In the spiritual life, you must take one step forward each day in a vertical line, from the bottom up.

We are called to love even in the loneliness, worship even in the tears and follow even in the darkness.