Retreatist Quotes

#1. A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.

Alan Hirsch

#2. To speak impartially, both sayings are very true: that man to man is a kind of God; and that man to man is an arrant wolf. The first is true, if we compare citizens amongst themselves; and the second, if we compare cities.

Thomas Hobbes

#3. Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.

B.C. Forbes

#4. Derek looked at Kylie and half chuckled. The last time I saw that look from girls, there was a handwritten note on my neighbor's tree house that read 'No boys allowed.' I'll see you. And if I get anything from my computer research, I'll let you know.

C.C. Hunter

#5. it's even harder to talk about girls who have died young: by dying, they stay young forever.

Haruki Murakami

#6. How do we view those who do not show love for us? Do we see them as persons for whom Christ died or as persons who make our lives difficult? I

Jerry Bridges

#7. This body is a tent which for a space Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace; When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher, Death, Strikes it, and moves to a new halting-place.

Omar Khayyam

#8. Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'

Nolan Bushnell

#9. Everyone is looking for the next big thrill to feel alive, chasing the unattainable.

Kim Askew

#10. I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.

Charlie Kaufman

#11. The eyes were of a color which he could never decide on, afterwards when he told the story he used to say they were the color of everything in Spring.

John Buchan

#12. Disease preys on a weak and malnourished mind.

Bernard Jensen