I'm Curious. Quotes

Prayer is meant to happen everywhere. After all, Daniel prayed in the lion’s den. Jonah prayed in a fish’s stomach. Elijah prayed in the desert. And Jesus prayed on the cross.

Somewhere, somehow, at some unknown intersection between prayer and work, God indwells our humble offering—God indwells us—and turns human actions into spiritual awakenings.

Prayer is the main dish. Everything else is gravy.

You have to be near Him to hear Him.

It’s easier to be close to God during prayer time when you’re close to God all the time.

There comes a point where you need to lose your religion in order to restore your relationship.

See every distraction as a clarion call back to prayer.

Prayer is about steeping in the Spirit of a God so loving that He totally changes you.

Prayer changes us because that’s what relationships do.

Changed people change nations.

Nowadays when we bow our heads before meals, we no longer say grace—we receive it.

Prayer is simply a constant communion with Christ.

There’s nothing like breaking the law to hear from the Lord.

Men are like busses. I mean, you wait for ages and ages, and when one does finally come along you can't get on. And that bit about them coming in threes, well, that's just a myth.

...in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't make decisions you would never do anything because you waste all your time choosing between things you could do...

We learned the seven traditional ways to make words unclear.""Seven? That many? Which was the most effective?""Poor grammar skills.

Work is easy when it’s full of meaning and shared with others.

Man’s desire is to know the mind of God.

God is the inevitability of humanity’s search for true meaning.

...because I went to London on my own, and because I went to solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.

Borman's dumping urine. Urine [in] approximately one minute." Two lines further along, we see Lovell saying, "What a sight to behold!

Rest in the knowledge that God is both abundantly gracious and ridiculously generous.

God has written us a book, and now we have the opportunity to respond with our words and actions.

The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light.

She knew that the dead hid pieces of themselves in the world. They buried organs in the living. They stuffed memories into trees and clouds and other innocuous things.

No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary

I learned from her that every woman is worriedabout her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.

Instead of worship or ignorance of the past, we must make our own tools, our own stories, and our own legends.

people believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as a flying squirrel or the human eye or a brain could happen by chance.

You are meant to lose the people you love. How else would you know how important they are to you?

What are the chances that of all 1.59629 quadrillion square feet of physical land on planet Earth, three major world religions are literally fighting over one single rock?

Dawn appears when it appears.

Referring to the church as a building is like referring to people as two-by-fours.

It's only people, as far as we know, who look up at the stars and wonder what they are.

Pram wasn't told the story of her birth. But even as a very small girl, she felt deep in her chest that she was alive and dead at the same time.

Yes, life is hard, but it's not a bad way to pass the time. When all is said and done, I recommend it.

Nothing unleashes curiosity in an audience like good storytelling. Nothing inspires storytelling, in turn, like the results of curiosity.

No genuine revolutionary challenge to either the State or Capitalism in the United States can fail to ignore racism's importance in maintaining the current system.

How does a person perform nobly in Hell?" I asked her."You plant flowers, " she hissed. "You feed the birds, while they're burning...

If I want a man I'll go to a cheap bar, like any other sane woman. I, for one, haven't hit rock bottom.

The rejection of mass organizations as the be-all, end-all of organizing is vital for the creation and rediscovery of possibilities for empowerment and effective anarchistic work.

We don't need unity in theory, we need solidarity in practice.

John Wesley’s own grave holds the bones of many other people, including at least five ministers. One can only imagine the bickering.

Crazy things seem normal, normal things seem crazy.

In life, you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do.

Stone gnomes and angels filled the gardens, and it seemed that they were also sleeping, as though a witch had cast a spell on them.

You know it’s a real salvation when Baptists use cold water.

It is difficult to put words to the smell of decomposing human. It is dense and cloying, sweet but not flower-sweet. Halfway between rotting fruit and rotting meat.

compressed into boxes, packed in sawdust, ... trussed up in sacks, roped up like hams...

cadavers' intestines hanging like a parade streamers off the sides of tables, skulls bobbing in boiling pots, organs strewn on the floor being eaten by dogs.....