Gilead's Quotes

#1. It seems to me that none of this stuff is mine, that I'm nothing but Roland of Gilead's fucking secretary. I know that's stupid, but a part of me sort of believes it.

Stephen King

#2. Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. The Cross was the place of your spiritual birth; it must ever be the spot for renewing your health, for it is the sanatorium of every sin-sick soul. The blood is the true balm of Gilead; it is the only catholicon [remedy] which heals every spiritual disease.

Charles Spurgeon

#4. Thee's a good man, Roland of Gilead." He considered this, then slowly shook his head. "All my life I've had the fastest hands, but at being good I was always a little too slow." She

Stephen King

#5. People will believe thousands of different lies in succession rather than confront a single scintilla of truth.

Steve Hely

#6. My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of Maine.

Marilynne Robinson

#7. There is a balm in Gilead," she read from the back, "to make the wounded whole - " "There's power enough in Heaven / To cure a sin-sick soul.

Louise Penny

#8. Trauma stories are no more valid or noble than stories of love and heroism. Trauma stories are like black holes in space. They suck up all the light available.

Annette Vaillancourt

#9. God's Word never fails. He will always heal you if you dare to believe Him. Men are searching everywhere today for things with which they can heal themselves, and they ignore the fact that the Balm of Gilead (Jeremiah 8:22) is within easy reach.

Smith Wigglesworth

#10. There was a saying in Gilead: Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall." "Uh-huh," Eddie said. "There was a saying in Brooklyn: You can't get snot off a suede jacket.

Stephen King

#11. It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.

Marilynne Robinson

#12. On the other side of Mid-World, Roland of Gilead, the last gunslinger, had drawn this divided woman to him and had created a third, who was far better, far stronger, than either of the previous two.

Stephen King

#13. Don't get me wrong - I like to rest a little bit. But I don't do well with downtime.

Megan Hilty

#14. Roland of Gilead responded as he ever had and ever would when such useless, mystifying questions were raised: 'Ka.

Stephen King

#15. First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead

Stephen King

#16. There was little that was truly original or indigenous to Gilead. Its genius was synthesis.

Margaret Atwood

#17. Hair is like a flock of goatsstreaming down Mount Gilead. b

Anonymous

#18. If I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out eternal damnation to people with cheap stage monitors.

Tim Minchin

#19. Its racist policies, for instance, were firmly rooted in the pre-Gilead period, and racist fears provided some of the emotional fuel that allowed the Gilead takeover to succeed as well as it did. Our

Margaret Atwood

#20. Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest of the face of an infant. I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any.

Marilynne Robinson

#21. As the architects of Gilead knew, to institute an effective totalitarian system or indeed any system at all you must offer some benefits and freedoms, at least to a privileged few, in return for those you remove.

Margaret Atwood

#22. There is no balm of Gilead, No salve, no soothing ointment To stay the pain of one who's had In love a disappointment
Unless it be that healing lotion Of fixing on a new devotion.

Richard Armour

#23. The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.

Gene Tierney

#24. There is no balm in Gilead, but there is balm in God. There is no physician among the creatures, but the Creator is Jehovah-rophi.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#25. I took a lot of things for granted - especially how I treated my body.

Bo Jackson

#26. For Gilead and the Calla!" he roared. "Now, gunslingers! Now, you Sisters of Oriza! Now, now! Kill them! No Quarter! Kill them all!

Stephen King

#27. VERY WELL, ROLAND OF GILEAD.
'VERY WELL, EDDIE OF NEW YORK.
'VERY WELL, SUSANNAH OF NEW YORK.
'VERY WELL, JAKE OF NEW YORK.
'VERY WELL, OY OF MID-WORLD.

Stephen King

#28. Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall.

Stephen King

#29. You must show him your monkey: I am sure he will like that.

Elizabeth Bowen

#30. There will be water if God wills it.

Stephen King

#31. Tell me truly, I implore
Is there
is there balm in Gilead?
tell me
tell me, I implore!

Edgar Allan Poe

#32. that backsliding generally first begins with neglect of private prayer. Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without

J.C. Ryle

#33. Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.

Anonymous

#34. There is a balm in Gilead
to make the wounded whole.

Louise Penny

#35. Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.

Clarence Darrow

#36. He looked back at them, and Eddie saw something he had never expected to see in his life - not even if that life stretched over a thousand years. Roland of Gilead was weeping.

Stephen King