Coggan's Quotes

#1. Donald Coggan's wisdom: "When true preaching takes place, the main actor is not the preacher, nor the congregation, but the Holy Spirit."15

Calvin Miller

#2. But (Peresphone) was like, the goddess of flowers." Grover looked offended. "Springtime.

Rick Riordan

#3. And hell, sometimes the best thing is to put on a black dress and become a wicked stepmother. There's power in that, if you're after power.

Catherynne M Valente

#4. As any gardener will tell you, the cycles of nature require patience ... Even a fast-growing vegetable like a radish requires time.

M.J. Ryan

#5. I never did,' said the little girl, but in a less doubtful tone than she had ever used with that phrase so familiar to her. A dim notion was growing in her mind that the fact that she had never done a thing was no proof that she couldn't.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#6. My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.

Donald Coggan

#7. The artist, if he is not to forget how to listen, must retain the visionwhich includes angels and dragons and unicorns, and all the lovely creatures which our world would put in a bos marked, 'Children Only.

Madeleine L'Engle

#8. I go through life as a transient on his way to eternity, made in the image of God but with that image debased, needing to be taught how to meditate, to worship, to think.

Donald Coggan

#9. Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.

William Dunbar

#10. When we were in the Dark Ages, it was a question of humanity somehow managing to forget about itself. We put God in the centre of society, and people forgot about their own nature and desires. There was a huge deal of repression.

Shakira