Charis Quotes

#1. Charis tried not to mind, since nothing that was or had been would perish, and the farm was still inside her, it was still hers because places belonged to the people who loved them.

Margaret Atwood

#2. Each day every man comes closer to the day of his death. Those who lay up their treasures in Thuros spend each day moving away from them. Those who lay up their treasures in Charis spend each day moving toward them.

Randy Alcorn

#3. Lord Foulgrin: "You must not let him see Charis as a place of learning, exploration, duties, travel, companionship, banquets, celebrations, and productive work. A low view of heaven is our ace in the hole." (conspiring to bring Fletcher down after salvation)

Randy Alcorn

#4. Charis disapproves of crass words like shit. Roz has offered poop, but Charis rejected it as too babyish. Her alimentary canal products? Tony has suggested. No, that sounds too coldly intellectual, said Charis. Her Gifts to the Earth.

Margaret Atwood

#5. From beginning to end, our Christian lives - highs and lows, fasting and fornication - are a tapestry of grace.
Charis: God's Scandalous Grace for Us (p. 31).

Preston Sprinkle

#6. The noun eleos (mercy) ... always deals with what we see of pain, misery and distress, these results of sin; and charis (grace) always deals with the sin and guilt itself. The one extends relief, the other pardon; the one cures, heals, helps, the other cleanses and reinstates.

John R.W. Stott

#7. In the original language, "he gave thanks" reads "eucharisteo." ... The root word for eucharisteo is charis, meaning "grace." Jesus took bread and saw it as grace and gave thanks. He took the bread and knew it to be gift and gave thanks.

Ann Voskamp

#8. But whenever the church fails to mediate God's counterintuitive delight in broken people, the pain of sin will only be magnified until it suffocates our souls. Good deeds and spiritual lingo can't heal a human heart suffocated by evil. Only grace can. Rich, embodied, earthy charis.

Preston Sprinkle

#9. Who should turn up but that long-lost schmuck of a Billy, and what did Charis do but rent him the other half of her duplex? It's enough to make you tear your hair out by its tiny grey roots,

Margaret Atwood

#10. Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.

Ned Vizzini

#11. Whatever the reasons, I enjoyed being nude; it felt natural to me. I got the same kind of pleasure from being free of clothing that many people get from being well dressed.

Charis Wilson

#12. She could be affectionate, generous, and optimistic one day; vengeful, depressed, and irritable the next. In the colloquial language of her friends, she was "either in the garret or cellar." In either mood, she needed attention, something the self-contained Lincoln was not always able to provide.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#13. There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance, courage, and the hand of an artist to weave it into the literature of the country.

Frances Harper

#14. It occurred to me that a lot of beauty has to do with believing it yourself. That half of what we see is just the way it is presented.

Nora Raleigh Baskin

#15. From Portrait of a Landscape

I think art only exists when it's being made. It's like a flower. Once picked, it starts to die.

Daniel D. Watkins

#16. I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.

Anthony Edwards

#17. My proudest moment was the number 'Reviewing the Situation.' I suspect that, because I gave my all to the role and because I was working with such a fine team of people, it inhibited my future career.

Ron Moody

#18. It's customary to stand when a lady enters and leaves the room, Mr. Snowden." Jacob cut his dark eyes to her. "If and when I'm in the presence of a lady, I'll be sure to do that.

A.E. Via

#19. Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy to account for.

Charis Wilson

#21. I knew I really didn't look that good, and that Edward Weston had glorified me, but it was a very pleasant thing to be glorified and I couldn't wait to go back for more.

Charis Wilson

#22. Sure, scars can be painfull to look at, reminding you where you've been, but they also remind you of how far you've come.

GirlDrawsManga

#23. A sweet soul will take you further than a sweet tongue.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#24. If the face appears, the picture is inevitably a portrait and the expression of the face will dictate the viewer's response to the body.

Charis Wilson