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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"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."
"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."
"The jungle is alive. It's dangerous as a living nightmare and brimful of hostility."
"Give me a man who sings at his work."
"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."
"The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest."
"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."
"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."
"She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself."
"All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words."
"I don't think being a comedian gives you any fucking insight into what makes people laugh."
"No baggage - there was the secret of existence."
"That's a poet.''I thought you said it was a bo-at.''Stupid pet! Don't you know what a poet it?''Why, a thing to sail on the water in.''Well, perhaps you're not so far wrong. Some poets do carry people over the sea....'...'A poet is a man who is glad of something, and tries to make other people glad of it too."
"Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?"
"The truth she gathered, enlarging her strength, enlarged likewise the composure that comes of strength."
"Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted."
"It's part of a writer's job to be nosy about everything."
"Watch your motive before God have no other motive in prayer than to know Him."
"The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;She shines on thieves on the garden wall,On streets and fields and harbour quays,And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees."
"Never ask another person's advice about anything God makes you decide before Him."
"The curve of my waist in a tight fitting summer dress can really make me new friends."
"The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish."
"This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press."
"A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof."
"My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life."
"The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure of again resuming my wonted employment may be readily calculated."
"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."
"If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way- not in a human way that ignores God."
"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."
"The grace you had yesterday will not be sufficient for today."
"When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line."
"We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press."
"In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian crime novels fingerprinting has to be explained because it's new. Nowadays it's part of our world and we can simply assume that knowledge if we write about it."
"That's all nonsense," said Curdie. "I don't know what you mean." "Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?"
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