L. Tobin Quotes

At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you.

I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how many different ways there are of being.

You made her apologize for sickness. For her courage. You made her feel sorry for dying.

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.

When we fail to harmonize and integrate, living systems, from individuals to families and countries, tend to move toward either chaos or rigidity.

God created every heart, every person for relationship. Connection has the power to both impact a person's life today as well as their eternal destiny.

Your faithfulness and mercies forever abide, we trust in You Jehovah - Ahavah, The Lord is love.

Creation is not restricted to the artist but instead is about how we bring ourselves authentically into the world both through our doing and being.

To speak of mystery in a Christian sense means that the human mind is finite and not fully able to understand, deduce or even contain the deep structures of God's reality.

Life is about trusting, loving, growing and healing even in the hurts which can occur.

. . .after the shadows comes light.

The hurt that troubled children create is never greater than the hurt they feel.

It takes more than wings to release one from the bonds of kinship.

God created every heart, every person for relationship.

May the light of God's love lead us always through the valleys.

We don't merely want to see beauty: we want to become part of it.

Areté is a word that means excellence in character and life. It is the accumulation of virtue in one's life.

Tobin Hart calls play “the holy work of children” that helps them “find and define themselves.”[2]

Newspapers, of course, need both news and fanfare. A blending of gossip and truth.

The damn vermin are so numerous that I am afraid to sneeze, for fear the damned lice would regard it as gong for dinner, and eat me up - Robert Cobb Kennedy

The crimson thread of God's love that weaves its way throughout the story of His mercy in our life, stands out against the backdrop of the darkness which invades any valley.

May the fullness of God's love and His mercy shine as treasures to be found in every horizon.

The mirror of humanity always reflects the need for a Savior.

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

Halloween is fun, but it wasn't always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.

Lots of men think that women should tell the truth, explain their feelings. These men should use their wishes more wisely. (Prepare To Die!, p.27)