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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"We arc the miracle of miracles the great inscrutable mystery of God."
"Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her " a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone."
"Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope."
"If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it."
"Narrow all your interests until your mind, heart, and body are focused on Jesus Christ."
"In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide that man or woman can have; for it is not the things we see the most clearly that influence us the most powerfully; undefined, yet vivid visions of something beyond, something which eye has not seen nor ear heard, have far more influence than any logical sequences whereby the same things may be demonstrated to the intellect. It is the nature of the thing, not the clearness of its outline, that determines its operation. We live by faith, and not by sight."
"The present is the living sum-total of the whole past."
"The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature."
"Speech is silvern silence is golden."
"You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside."
"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police."
"I do love America. And LA is a very short commute to America its like half an hour on the plane."
"Three,' reckoned the captain, 'ourselves make seven, counting Hawkins, here. Now, about honest hands?'Most likely Trelawney's own men," said the doctor; 'those he had picked up for himself, before he lit on Silver.'Nay,' replied the squire. 'Hands was one of mine.'I did think I could have trusted Hands,' added the captain."
"The west is broken into bars Of orange gold and gray Gone is the sun come are the stars And night infolds the day."
"I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die."
"The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep."
"Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid."
"We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself."
"The whole universe is but a huge Symbol of god"."
"Work done is of more consequence for the future than the foresight of an angel."
"I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash."
"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."
"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."
"Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus."
"It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table."
"The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy."
"It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive."
"The church grew very lonely about him, and he began to feel like a child whose mother has forsaken it. Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken."
"The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough."
"Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die."
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