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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world."
"If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all."
"A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus."
"What a blessed habit I have found my prayer list, morning by morning, it takes me via the Throne of all Grace straight to the intimate personal heart of each one mentioned here, and I know that He Who is not prescribed by time and geography answers immediately."
"My prayers my God flow from what I am not I think Thy answers make me what I am."
"When God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don't fill it with busyness, just wait."
"A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right."
"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
"The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people."
"It is a good thing to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy."
"For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists."
"The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience."
"Seeing is not believing, it is only seeing,George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin."
"I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all genres - the fiction has to be real inside your head."
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."
"If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?"
"For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say 'Good morning, sir' or 'madam, ' depending on what is appropriate, you wait until you are greeted, you make polite chitchat about the weather or some such, and when the salesperson asks what they can do for you, then and only then do you bring up the vulgar business of the transaction you require."
"I want to tell you a growing conviction with me, and that is that as we obey the leadings of the Spirit of God, we enable God to answer the prayers of other people. I mean that our lives, my life, is the answer to someone's prayer, prayed perhaps centuries ago.It is more and more impossible to me to have programmes and plans because God alone has the plan, and our plans are only apt to hinder Him, and make it necessary for Him to break them up. I have the unspeakable knowledge that my life is the answer to prayers, and that God is blessing me and making me a blessing entirely of His sovereign grace and nothing to do with my merits, saving as I am bold enough to trust His leading and not the dictates of my own wisdom and common sense."
"She wishes her grandmother had not been so protective, and that she understood better what passes between a man and woman. As it is, she simply enjoys the feelings and wonders if they are what lightning is made of, for everything comes back to the weather. Tears like rain. Smiles like the sun. Hair as dry as sand and fear like the dark ocean."
"The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God's Word."
"Never say you will pray about a thing pray about it."
"We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours."
"I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God."
"Nothing is long ago in an archive, my dear. In the records we treat the dead as same as the living. that's the whole point of keeping papers. It doesn't matter if it's a hundred years or only a few weeks. It's all filed away, fresh as the day it went under the covers."
"The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us."
"It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book."
"The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God and that alters my view of actual things."
"Ye are most strong, ye Sons of the icy North, of the far East, far marching from your rugged Eastern Wildernesses, hither-ward from the gray Dawn of Time! Ye are Sons of the Jotun-land; the land of Difficulties Conquered. Difficult? You must try this thing. Once try it with the understanding that it will and shall have to be done. Try it as ye try the paltrier thing, making of money! I will bet on you once more, against all Jo'tuns, Tailor-gods, Double-barrelled Law-wards, and Denizens of Chaos whatsoever!"
"The jungle is alive. It's dangerous as a living nightmare and brimful of hostility."
"Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to give it."
"Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination for you. Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus, I've lost sight of all beside, So enchained my spirit's vision, Gazing on the Crucified."
"We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."
"The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense of narrative drive that is essential to the modern novel, screenplay and even non-fiction."
"Beware of surrender that is motivated by personal benefits that may result."
"As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves."
"Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate."
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