Elijahs Cup Quotes

#1. To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be hoped. The prizes which some have received for their multiplicity of languages may be sufficient to excite industry, but can hardly generate confidence.

Samuel Johnson

#2. There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language, common language. Most of it was oral and spoken to illiterate people. They were the first ones to receive it. So when we make everything academic, we lose something.

Eugene H. Peterson

#3. Nothing reminds one of how shitty inequality is more often than the fact that there are companies who make and people who use 1-ply toilet papers.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#4. I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.

Lynn Johnston

#5. If you are nothing else in this life, be wise, be compassionate, and be strong because those three are everything

Kristen Ashley

#6. Children see magic because they look for it.

Christopher Moore

#7. Our society has made it extremely difficult for those living
with the virus to declare their status

Oche Otorkpa

#8. It sucks because you're trying to do the right thing, but the result isn't showing it. You're at the stage where good intentions meet crappy abilities. Welcome to my first eleven months as a vampire." "You've only been a vampire for ten months." "My point exactly.

Chloe Neill

#9. Jesus was announcing that a whole new world was being born and he was "teaching" people how to live within that whole new world.

N. T. Wright

#10. Working with language is a means by which we can identify the bullshit within ourselves (and others).

George Saunders

#11. Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Wisdom of the ages you seek, lad? I offer but one word: treasure. At what price does this treasure come, you ask, for not all does silver and gold make? If it be treasure you seek then you are a pirate!

Kerry Lynne