Top 100 Stedman Quotes
#1. When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear. p.276
M.L. Stedman
#2. Your family's never in your past. You carry it around with you everywhere.
M.L. Stedman
#3. When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security.
Stedman Graham
#5. During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
J. G. Stedman
#6. If a lighthouse looks like it's in a different place, it's not the lighthouse that's moved.
M.L. Stedman
#7. Only gradually did he notice she was pretty, and more gradually still that she was probably beautiful.
M.L. Stedman
#8. As long as one has good things in the mind, one can be happy. This I know.
M.L. Stedman
#9. The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#10. God comforts us to make us comforters, not to make us comfortable.
Ray C. Stedman
#11. The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.
Stedman Graham
#12. Here in a place where there's just wind an waves and light, and the intricate machinery that keeps the flame burning and the lantern turning. Always turning. Always looking over its shoulder
M.L. Stedman
#13. Give us a man of God's own mould
Born to marshall his fellow-men;
One whose fame is not bought and sold
At the stroke of a politician's pen.
Give us the man of thousands ten,
Fit to do as well as to plan;
Give us a rallying-cry, and then
Abraham Lincoln, give us a Man.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#14. I'm all right on my own. And I'm all right with a bit of company. It's the switching from one to the other that gets me.
M.L. Stedman
#15. To bear witness to the death, without being broken by the weight of it.
M.L. Stedman
#16. This focusing outward ... painful as it was, saved her from a more intolerable examination.
M.L. Stedman
#17. Later still, the war memorials would sprout from the earth, dwelling not on the loss, but on what the loss had won, and what a fine thing it was to be victorious. "Victorious and dead," some muttered, "is a poor sort of victory.
M.L. Stedman
#18. If the war had taught her anything, it was to take nothing for granted: that it wasn't safe to put off what mattered. Life could snatch away the things you treasured, and there was no getting them back.
M.L. Stedman
#19. A happy people I call them still, whose peace and genuine morals have not been contaminated with European vices; and whose errorsare only the errors of ignorance, and not the rooted depravity of a pretended civilization, and a spurious and mock Christianity.
John Gabriel Stedman
#20. cubbies together. She was a bit older, and always had to be
M.L. Stedman
#21. To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers' ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.
John Gabriel Stedman
#22. Christ
the quickest way to send a bloke mad is to let him go on re-fighting his war till he gets it right.
M.L. Stedman
#24. if a parent loses a child, there was no special label for their grief. They were still just a mother or a father, even if they no longer had a son or daughter. That seemed odd.
M.L. Stedman
#25. It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.
M.L. Stedman
#26. If you're to fulfill your vision for a better life, you must formulate a plan of action. Effective planning involves identifying and prioritizing those actions that will move you most efficiently toward your goal.
Stedman Graham
#27. Our own star! Like the world's been made just for us! With the sunshine and the ocean. We have each other all to ourselves.
M.L. Stedman
#28. What your wife's going to say you did or didn't do, if
M.L. Stedman
#29. Every end is the beginning of something else.
M.L. Stedman
#30. Once a child gets into your heart, there's no right or wrong about it.
M.L. Stedman
#31. Lo, as I gaze, the statured man,
Built up from you large hand appears:
A type that nature wills to plan
But once in all a people's years.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#32. I shouldn't have spoken like that.'
'People do, sometimes. People who've had less to contend with than you. We're not always in full control of our actions.
M.L. Stedman
#34. I warn you, though, he's not the happiest corpse in the morgue. Not much of a talker, Neville Whittnish.
M.L. Stedman
#35. Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#36. Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#37. Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things. - as Frank Roennfeldt
M.L. Stedman
#38. I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.
J. G. Stedman
#39. It occurs to him that there are different versions of himself to farewell - the abandoned eight-year-old; the delusional soldier who hovered somewhere in hell; the lightkeeper who dared to leave his heart undefended. Like Russian dolls, these lives sit within him.
M.L. Stedman
#40. He's lived the life he's lived. He's loved the woman he's loved. No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on this earth and that's all right by home.
M.L. Stedman
#42. In his sufferings, Job has learned that God is greater than his theology. This is a truth we all need to learn. We tend to think we know how God will act in every situation. And the moment we have God neatly confined in our little theological box. He does something surprising!
Ray C. Stedman
#44. Is there a rarer being,
Is there a fairer sphere
Where the strong are not unseeing,
And the harvests are not sere;
Where, ere the seasons dwindle
They yield their due return;
Where the lamps of knowledge kindle
While the flames of youth still burn?
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#46. People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.
Stedman Graham
#47. Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#48. No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on earth ...
M.L. Stedman
#49. Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance.
M.L. Stedman
#50. So many men who had dodged death over there now seemed addicted to its lure.
M.L. Stedman
#51. A goblin thought jumps onto her shouder: what's the point of tomorrow?
M.L. Stedman
#52. A lighthouse is for others; powerless to illuminate the space closest to it.
M.L. Stedman
#53. God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people.
Ray Stedman
#54. Perhaps when it comes to it, no one is just the worst thing they ever did.
M.L. Stedman
#55. I wasn't exactly thrilled about it being a Lutheran organization, but when you live in Minnesota - land of lutefisk and home to no less than seven Lutheran colleges and four Lutheran seminaries - Lutherans are kind of inescapable.
Chris Stedman
#57. Then this is how you do it,' and kissed her slowly, letting time fade away. And he couldn't remember any other kiss that felt quite the same.
M.L. Stedman
#58. Izz, I've learned the hard way that to have any kind of a future you've got to give up hope of ever changing your past.
M.L. Stedman
#60. Then he remembered Ralph's words
no point in fighting your war over and over until you get it right.
M.L. Stedman
#61. Life,' thought Septimus, ... 'you could never trust the bastard. What it gives with one hand, it takes away with the other.
M.L. Stedman
#62. I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.
Stedman Graham
#63. I've found that often, just when you think you've hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment
Stedman Graham
#64. Life could snatch away the things you treasured, and there was no getting them back. She began to feel an urgency, a need to seize an opportunity. Before anyone else did.
M.L. Stedman
#66. Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art; there is a lack of sincerity, of irresistible impulse in both the poet and the, composer.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#67. Putting down the burden of the lie has meant giving up the freedom of the dream.
M.L. Stedman
#68. To pursue success effectively, you must build supportive relationships that will help you work toward your goals. To build those relationships, you need to trust others; and to earn their trust, you in turn must learn to be trustworthy ...
Stedman Graham
#69. Nature allowed only the fit and the lucky to share this paradise-in-the-making.
M.L. Stedman
#70. Maatsuyker, the wild island south of Tasmania where it rained most days of the year and the chickens blew into the sea during storms.
M.L. Stedman
#71. Even Reverend Norkells urged her to spend less time in the stony darkness of the church and to "look for Christ in the life around her.
M.L. Stedman
#72. All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive.
Stedman Graham
#73. If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.
Stedman Graham
#74. Although God certainly knows all our needs, praying for them changes our attitude from complaint to praise and enables us to participate in God's personal plan for our lives.
Ray Stedman
#75. Your trench. The lice were "chats," the food was
M.L. Stedman
#76. To get where we want to go in life, we have to keep at it. We have to create a vision, make choices based on what moves us most swiftly toward our goals, and go after them with determination and single-mindedness.
Stedman Graham
#77. You could kill a bloke with rules, Tom knew that. And yet sometimes they were what stood between man and savagery, between man and monsters.
M.L. Stedman
#78. You have only to forgive once. To resent, you have to doit all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things" Frank to Hannah Roennfeldt
M.L. Stedman
#79. We live with the decisions we make, Bill. That's what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes.
M.L. Stedman
#80. I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.
Stedman Graham
#82. It has always seemed unfair to me that many churches (and some individual Christians) keep careful records on how many converts they make to Christianity, but never keep any record of how many they drive away from Christ!
Ray Stedman
#83. You've had so much strife but you're always happy. How do you do it?" "I choose to,
M.L. Stedman
#84. Sometimes, you're the one who strikes it lucky. Sometimes, it's the other poor bastard who's left with the short straw, and you just have to shut up and get on with it.
M.L. Stedman
#86. Her bond with the couple who raised her is fierce and beyond questioning. She cannot name the sensation of losing them as grief. She has no word for longing or despair.
M.L. Stedman
#87. improbable to Tom that such endless space could exist
M.L. Stedman
#88. No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ from each other only according to the soil and the climate in which they live.
John Gabriel Stedman
#89. Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#90. Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue of May. Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why, Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring? Whither away?
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#91. Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it.
M.L. Stedman
#92. excoriated and burned, mapped and measured and meted
M.L. Stedman
#93. But every human path leads on to God;
He holds a myriad finer threads than gold,
And strong as holy wishes, drawing us
With delicate tension upward to Himself.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#94. Then in 1914 things changed. Partageuse found that it too had something the world wanted. Men. Young men. Fit men. Men who had spent their lives swinging an ax or holding a plow and living it hard. Men who were the prime cut to be sacrificed on tactical altars a hemisphere away.
M.L. Stedman
#95. You know, you're living in a society where if you say something that you might think may be OK, when it's more sensitive to that particular culture. You have to be very, very careful.
Stedman Graham
#96. Other blokes might take advantage, but to Tom, the idea of honor was a kind of antidote to some of the things he'd lived through.
M.L. Stedman
#97. People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.
Stedman Graham
#98. Always slightly off balance. It was a new sensation for him.
M.L. Stedman
#99. Or I can forgive and forget ... Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things ... we always have a choice.
M.L. Stedman
#100. Understand who you are, so that you can be the same, whether you're talking to a homeless person or the president of the United States. You're the same person.
Stedman Graham
