Christian Writers Quotes

#1. We at the Christian Writers Guild couldn't be more proud of Brandy Vallance. Let her debut novel transport you to an entirely fresh time and place where you'll soon forget you're turning pages and find yourself riveted to the destinies of characters who'll leave a lasting impression on your heart.

Jerry B. Jenkins

#2. For Christian writers, religious faith is not a rebellion against reason, but a revolt against the imprisonment of humanity within the cold walls of a rationalist dogmatism.

Alister E. McGrath

#3. 3 And thus he foretells us, behold the Lord cometh, and his reward is with him,

Wake, William

#4. Mid-life crises, in Fran's ageing view, are a luxury compared with what she has seen of end-of-life crises.

Margaret Drabble

#5. The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

C.S. Lewis

#6. Writers around the world protested when two Communist writers, Siniavski and Daniel, were sentenced to prison by their own comrades. But not even churches protest when Christians are put in prison for their faith.

Richard Wurmbrand

#7. In the Fragments, sensations are more profound and richly clarified through deliberate and explicit pattern; emotions are given a sequence and development such as the exigencies of practical life rarely permit.

Alton Tobey

#8. Within the context of the clubs, and perhaps the sex business as a whole, the issue of race becomes very complicated because you can't force someone to pay for something - or someone - that they don't want, whether their desire - or lack thereof - is motivated by racism or not.

Craig Seymour

#9. Not everyone you protect will be your friend. Not everyone you protect will be someone you like.

Richelle Mead

#10. It is something to have gazed on the constellated white,
felt it running from the eyes and the pores: the salt of love.
It is something to have whispered wild thank-yous
in the only ways we know how.

Bryana Johnson

#11. The real duty of a motivational speaker and an inspirational writer must be to inspire lives to live and leave distinctive footprints which shall qualify such lives to eternal eternity in the Kingdom of God notwithstanding how minute or great the footprints might be

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#12. I believe that the writers of Genesis had detected the inherent selfishness in human nature that I propose is in our genes, and invented the myth of original sin to account for it. It's an image. I am not acting as an exegete - I don't interpret scripture.

Christian De Duve

#13. With ancient history writers most immediately in view, the author indicates tendency to look to the virtues and vices of individuals when seeking causes.

Peter Heather

#14. There is a line from the Marina Tsvetaeva poem I'm so fond of: "In this most Christian of worlds/ All poets are Jews." What she means is that writers and artists are outside the normal flow of daily life, the normal flow of society in general.

Paul Auster

#15. They followed because it was all they had ever done; they followed because it was all they knew how to do.

Jennifer Close

#16. I'm a writer. I'm a Christian. I like sex. But I haven't had it. I believe in waiting until marriage. But that doesn't mean I want my characters to.

Michelle N. Onuorah

#17. Whatever else may be thought of the evidence from early Jewish and Gentile writers it does at least establish, for those who refuse the witness of Christian writings, the historical character of Jesus Himself.

F.F. Bruce

#18. One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

Sandra Cisneros

#19. I think I have kind of a natural magnetism.

Wesley Snipes

#20. And they all have pretty children,
And the children go to school,
And the children go to summer camp,
And then to the university,
Where they are put in boxes
And they come out all the same.

Malvina Reynolds

#21. Progress is learning to control your world.

Brandon Sanderson

#22. A lot of writers come from Harvard and such, and are rich, and they write under the misapprehension that poor people are stupid. So when they do write them, they are hillbillies or rednecks or Christian idiots.

Norm MacDonald

#23. My advice to aspiring actors and writers is that your career's success is totally your responsibility. You need to make it happen. There is no end point to an artist's work, no set time line you have to live up to.

Christian Keiber

#24. This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#25. All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and there is nothing you can do till another reader says different.

Uma Nnenna

#26. Therefore the love which us doth bind,
But fate so enviously debars,
Is the conjunction of the mind,
And opposition of the stars.

Andrew Marvell

#27. When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the world, not through architecture, but through painting. I lived the artist's life, mingling with poets and writers, and working as a waiter. I was intrigued by the aliveness of the city.

Christian De Portzamparc

#28. Women exist to put right all the wrongs men do and to keep them from making a complete pig's ear of the world.

Jayne Fresina

#29. Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.

Heraclitus

#30. One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.

Richard Bach

#31. God accentuate our mind with exact words to write.

Lailah Gifty Akita