Top 24 Davidman Quotes
#1. Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.
Eli Roth
#2. Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating.
Joy Davidman
#3. When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle.
J.C. Ryle
#4. I became a communist because later on I was going to become a Christian.
Joy Davidman
#5. She was a Seeker now, marked for life.
She had thought this brand would be an eblem of pride, but now it meant something entirely different. She was damned.
Arwen Elys Dayton
#6. Even worse is the discovery that one has been living out certain greeting-card sentiments, with ribbons of middle-class virtue tied in a bow around one's heart.
Saul Bellow
#7. When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.
Carl Jung
#8. I had no knowledge of divine help, and all the world lost faith in gradual progress.
Joy Davidman
#10. The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.
Aleister Crowley
#11. What war did for him (hasten disillusionment with communism), childbirth did for me. I began to notice what neglected, neurotic waifs the children of Communists were and to question the genuineness of the love of mankind that didn't begin at home.
Joy Davidman
#12. I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance.
Joy Davidman
#13. I changed. I have been turning into a different person since that half-minute.
Joy Davidman
#14. From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting ... On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.
E.B. White
#15. Silence is the potential from which music can arise.
Keith Jarrett
#16. Was the happiness of knowing these girls really unattainable? It would certainly not have been the first happiness of that sort which I had abandoned all hope of ever enjoying?
Marcel Proust
#17. No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.
Joy Davidman
#18. Anyone who studies our poisonous drugs, our denatured food, our deathtrap automobiles and houses, our lung-rotting cities, must concede that we accept a good deal of murder as inevitable simply because it is done to make or save money.
Joy Davidman
#19. That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
Woodrow Wilson
#20. I was never really a big presence in the home.
Dick Ebersol
#21. See yourself in the mirror, you're separate from yourself. See the world in the mirror, you're separate from the world. I don't want that separation anymore.
Joy Davidman
#23. Go out into the world, do your best all day, try to think higher thoughts, try to be kind and compassionate, but don't let people take advantage of you.
Frederick Lenz
#24. The modern materialist often makes it simply: "Do what you like," and then rushes off to ask his psychoanalyst when he no longer likes anything.
Joy Davidman
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